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Code Talkers were specially trained in the art of code talking in the language of the Navajo people. As I understand it, most were of Navajo descent but not all.
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.
The movie you're looking for is "Code Talkers," starring Nicolas Cage. It features Code Talkers during the WWII Battle of Saipan.
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No code talkers were captured. There was a Navajo man who was captured by the Japanese in the Bataan Death March group. They interrogated him. He could not give them the code because he had not been trained in the code. He may have been able to figure it out if they Japanese had not tortured him.
A lot of code talkers were killed off because when the Japanese saw them in the planes, they would kill the code talkers right away because the code talkers were the main source of communication.
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Few people know that before the Navajo code talkers, there were Choctaw code talkers. They were a group of fourteen Choctaws employed by the Army during WWI to transmit information safely. They played a big role in the final defeat of the Germans. Then, again during world war II, they were used along with other tribes such as the Commanche, Kiowa and Seminole as well as the Navajo code talkers.
Native American code talkers... the Navajo code talkers recruited by the Marines during the Second World War are the most famous of them, although the Army did recruit some Cherokee, Choctaw, and and Comanche code talkers. Additionally, the Marines hired some native Basque speakers for the same purpose. The "code" they spoke was actually their native language.
When you think of code talkers you think of the Navajo during WWII. However, less famous, but equally important were the Commanche and Choctaw code talkers
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