Navajo is a very difficult language and impossible for the Japanese to decipher
Navajo as code talkers
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.
The Navajo and 11 Hopi soldiers used the the easiest of the Navajo language, to help America defeat the Japanese.
They lived on army bases just like any other soldiers
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.
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 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.
Navajo is a very difficult language and impossible for the Japanese to decipher
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Navajo as 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.