0
Navaho Code Talkers were used to send and receive secret radio comunications that the U.S. didn't want the enemy to intercept and understand. Without the code talkers messages had to be communicated by either by voice -- in English (which the enemy could easily translate) or they had to be sent by code (which took some time to code on the sending end and decode on the receiving end -- TOO much time in heated action.) Since the Navaho spoken language was understood ONLY by a limited number of trained Navahos a Code Talker could send a message in his own language talking to a Code Talker on the receiving end of the communication. Immediately the Code Talker on the receiving end could translate his language into English for American officers or soldiers directing the battle action. Believe me .... made for fast communications and speeded things up considerably. vcs
Wiki User
∙ 19y ago
Wiki User
∙ 16y agoBacause if the Japanese intercepted English radio transmissions, they could translate them. If they intercepted Navajo, they could not translate them, because no Japanese knew the Navajo language even if they were able to identify the language over the radio.
Wiki User
∙ 15y agoThe Navajo code talker had a great impact on U.S. Perhaps even helping them win the war against the Japanese. The use of code was becoming obsolete so they decided to use an ancient language. Thus, they helped save lives and put them at a better advantage through tactics and without getting their code cracked. The Navajo language being essentially impossible to decipher by non-native speakers made a perfect code for radio transmissions during WW2 Pacific theatre operations. It ensured the Japanese would not be able to break US codes and learn the meaning of Allied radio traffic.
Wiki User
∙ 9y agoThe Navajo soldiers used their native language to make a code for transmitting messages so the Japanese could not decipher. Even another Navajo speaker if not trained in the code would only hear an ungrammatical string of unrelated words. But for those trained in it and bilingual in English and Navajo it could be employed very fast and very accurately. A machine of code book would take 20-30 minutes for each message sent or received. The Navajo based code was 2 or 3 minutes and over an open radio channel. The language was also so different for English or Japanese speakers that they found it impossible to even transcribe it or say it and thus impossible to fake or study to solve as well.
Wiki User
∙ 11y agoThey volunteered because they are American citizens who wanted to serve as well as the other male citiezens of the USA. Some volunteered to represent their tribe. Some did it for the income. Some were excited to use their language to help in the war effort. We are extremely grateful to them for volunteering and doing a great job.
Most tribes are very over represented in the US Military compared to the relative size of their population. On the Navajo Nation veterans are an important part of the culture and history an honored at many events. My navajo teacher volunteered at age 17 out of Indian boarding school. He had been punished very harshly for speaking navajo when he entered school at age 7. I think he relished the irony that now they needed his language skills.
Wiki User
∙ 12y agoNot just Navajos were used as "code talkers" - many native Americans were used in this way. The point was that at that time native American languages were not widely known or studied outside the USA (and not even widely known inside the USA). These languages included Cherokee, Choctaw, Lakota, Comanche, Meskwaki and others. The last Lakota code talker, Clarence Wolf Guts, died in 2010.
in addition, the Navajo language contains many sounds that are not easily written using English, German or Japanese writing - there are many very difficult sounds that most people can not even pronounce correctly, such as ł, tłʼ and gh.For native Japanese speakers these sounds are totally alien and impossible to write using any native Japanese system, making the breaking of the code far more difficult than many other systems.
Wiki User
∙ 12y agoMany were chosen based on how much they knew about the Navajo language. If you were helplessly lost with it, you would not be accepted.
Wiki User
∙ 10y agothe Navajo code talkers were important to the military because they were very smart and could talk well and were immortal
Wiki User
∙ 8y agoTo talk in there native language to send codes during battle so the Japanese couldnt crack the code
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
What branch did the Navajo code talkers serve in?
Most of the Navajo Code Talkers served in the best military branch, The United States Marines. A few served in the Army but not many.
What were the accomplishments of Navajo code talkers?
nooo i dont know the answer
What name was given to the Navajo radio operators?
Navajo Code Talkers
Who recruited the Navajo code talkers?
the general of the marines recruited them poo
How are the Tuskegee airmen related to the Navajo code talkers?
Both helped in WW2.
What happened in chapter 23 in the code talkers?
the navajos defeated japan
Plot for the book code talkers?
That the Navajos helped thge US in the war.
Did the Navajo have any relationships with the US?
Yes, code talkers. It is said without Navajos you would have lost WWII.
Who were the first Code Talkers?
The code-talkers of World War II mostly refer to the Native Americans who used parts of their indigenous languages to translate secret tactical messages into code, then decipher the code back into the message. They were used in the Pacific Theater of World War II, and, to a lesser extent, in the European Theater. The most decorated Native American code-talkers were Navajo, but Native Americans of the Comanche and Meskwaki people also served as code-talkers during the war.
What problem plagued early code talkers on their island assignments and how was it solved?
Frequently, and especially when a Marine regiment was fighting alongside an Army unit, the Navajos
What was the code they spoke in world war 2?
I believe you are referring to the Navajo Code Talkers. The Navajos were recruited to use their language to speak in code and sent Morse code in the Navajo Code. The Japanese could not recognize the language.
How many original code talkers are left?
It is not known exactly how many of the Native American code talkers perished in World War II but most of them survived. They are mostly dead now from old age.
Who were the native American code talkers during the attack of pearl harbor?
The Navajos. Their language is complex and only truly understandable to someone who has learned it from birth. It had the Japanese baffled.
Did the Navajo code talker get paid for the help?
The Navajo Code Talkers were in the Armed Forces and were paid according to their pay status and rank. The Navajos that remained in the US and were too old to join the military and helped with the code were reimbursed.
What are Navajos know for?
Navajo Code Talkers were used too send messages to the US soldiers during war that the Japanese could not understand the Navajos were known for using their language to help us win World War 2.they were know for there art.
What tribe did the code talkers come from?
The code talkers of WWII were from the Navajo tribe. Navajo has no alphabet or symbols, and is spoken only on the Navajo lands of the American Southwest. One estimate indicates that less than 30 non-Navajos, none of them Japanese, could understand the language at the outbreak of World War II. The idea to use Navajo for secure communications came from Philip Johnston, the son of a missionary to the Navajos.
Who cracked the enigma code created in world war 2?
The Navajos spoke the Navajo language that the code was based upon. The Navajos were great code talkers. They could send and receive code faster than the "white man" could do it. The Japanese never did break that code. Too bad they did not use it in the European theater.
