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The Navajo and 11 Hopi soldiers used the the easiest of the Navajo language, to help America defeat the Japanese.
They were called "wind talkers" or simply code talkers. They took advantage of the fact that Navajo was a spoken language that practically no one outside the tribe was fluent in. Messages sent in Navajo or other language codes presented another level of difficulty to anyone trying to break the code.
Navajo is a very difficult language and impossible for the Japanese to decipher
The primary duty of the Navajo Code Talkers was to use their language to communicate with the commanders and the troops and Naval Ships. Their language was not all in written form and they did not have words like bomb, ship, ammunition, etc. They used words that would describe something: for example bird for plane or eagle for bomber (made up since the code is classified still and used still). They were also fighters and Morse code senders on radios. They used many forms of radios. There was a Choctaw Code in World War 1 and that is where they got the idea to use the Navajo language since the Japanese could not understand it.
Navajo "Code-Talkers" provided their native language in radio communications in the Pacific which the Japanese could not decode because they were unfamiliar with the Navajo language .