Their language (Navajo's) was very hard to understand and it was just as hard to learn. It made it very easy for the Navajo to send secret messages in aide to the Americans.
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.
The Navajo Code Talkers took part in, and contributed to the success of, the island campaigns in the south and central Pacific between the US and Japan.
The Navajo Code Talkers were people who used a spoken code in the Navajo language to communicate between US units on the battlefield in the Pacific Theater of War during World War 2.
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Navajo as code talkers
Navajo is a very difficult language and impossible for the Japanese to decipher
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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
The Navajo.
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.
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.