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 Navajo Indian communication men, "Code Talker" are with the US Marines on Saipan, who landed with the first assault waves, their primary job was the transmission of secret tactical messages, June 1944. Photo by J. L. Burns (Marine Corps)

 The name code talkers is strongly associated with bilingual Navajo speakers specially recruited during World War II by the Marines to serve in their communications units in the Pacific Theater. Navajo in particular was the main choice for code use because few people outside the Navajo themselves had ever learned to speak the language and virtually no books in Navajo had ever been published.