The Navajo were not the first code talkers in the US Army; Cherokee and Choctaws had been used in 1918, during the First World War. IN WW2 many other native American languages were also used alongside Navajo.
Navajos were first formed into a trainee coded message unit in May 1942.
Some Navajo were drafted but the Code Talkers were volunteers.
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.
Navajo Code Talkers
the Marines, actually
The code talkers were native American from the Navajo tribe. They used their native language to send messages that the Japanese couldn't decode or understand.
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.
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.
In US Marine uniforms.
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The address of the Navajo Code Talkers Foundation is: Po Box 1266, Window Rock, AZ 86515-1266
Were called the Navajo Code Talkers.
Navajo code talkers spoke in their own language over the American forces wireless communications, so preventing the enemy from understanding the transmissions.