美国将于8月14日举办国家密码破译员日纪念活动，101岁的纳瓦霍老兵托马斯·比盖等幸存者将参加在凤凰城举行的活动[1]。二战期间，美国海军陆战队征募了超过400名纳瓦霍人，利用他们的本土语言创建了一套密码系统，这一系统在太平洋战争中发挥了关键作用[1]。该计划在战后保密数十年，直至1968年才解密[1]。
1982年，里根总统正式签署公告，将8月14日定为国家密码破译员日[1]。如今，当年参与该密码计划的纳瓦霍密码破译员仅有两人幸存[1]。
The United States will observe National Code Talker Day on August 14, with a commemorative event in Phoenix featuring one of the last surviving Navajo code talkers.[1] Thomas Begay, who is 101 years old, is among the final living members of a group of Navajo servicemembers whose contributions proved critical to American military operations during World War II.[1]
During the war, the U.S. Marine Corps recruited more than 400 Navajo individuals to develop an unbreakable military code based on their native language.[1] Operating between 1942 and 1945, these code talkers created a communications system that played a vital role in the Pacific Theater.[1] The program remained classified until 1968, when it was declassified.[1] President Ronald Reagan officially designated August 14 as National Code Talker Day through a proclamation in 1982.[1] Only two Navajo code talkers survive today—Begay and Peter MacDonald—making events commemorating their legacy increasingly significant as the community honors their wartime service and sacrifice.[1]