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The Navajo Code Talkers, whose ranks exceed 400 during the course of World War II in the Pacific Theater. Have been credited with saving countless lives and hastening the end of the war. The Code Talker's served in all six Marine divisions from 1942 to 1945. The Code Talker's primary job was to talk and transmit information on tactics, troop movements, orders and other vital battlefield information via telegraphs and radios in their native dialect. A major advantage of the code talker system was its speed. The method of using Morse Code often took hours where as, the Navajos handled a message in minutes. It has been said that if was not for the Navajo Code Talker's, the Marines would have never taken Iwo Jima. The Navajo's unwritten language was understood by fewer than 30 non-Navajo's at the time of WWII. The size and complexity of the language made the code extremely difficult to comprehend, much less decipher. It was not until 1968 that the code became declassified by the US Government.
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What were the Navajo code breakers?
There were no Navajo code "breakers" . That means someone who tries to figure out and unknown code. Native Americans who worked for the American side in World War II were sometimes called "code talkers". They used a substitution code to encode English orders using a native American language, mostly Navajo but other ones were used too.
Where were Navajo code talkers stationed?
The navajo were stationed in 29 nine palms for a while then were transported to the san diego marine corp base during world war two.urah
What recognition wa the Navajo code talkers given by your government?
The program remained top secret until 1968. In 1982 Reagan gave them " a Certificate of Recognition" and declared August 14, 1982 "Navajo Code Talkers Day. In 2000 congress passed and Clinton signed Public Law 106-554, 114 Statute 2763. It awarded the Congressional Gold Medal to the original twenty-nine World War II Navajo code talkers, and Silver Medals to each person who qualified as a Navajo code talker (approximately 300). Bush gave those to gold medals to 4 living men (the 5th couldn't come) and 24 medals to the families of the code talkers no longer living.
How did the native American Navajo help the war effect?
Twenty nine Navajo men created a code to help the American war effort in world war two. The code was never broken by the Japanese. The Navajo women worked in factories, planted victory gardens, and took over the mens general duties while the men were at war. The women volunteered for red cross. They gave away practically all the natural resources they had to help the war effort, they were given nothing in return. Not all Navajo soldiers were code talkers some were general soldiers.
Nicholas Cage must help protect the Navajo code talkers in which war movie?
Nicholas Cage starred in the 2002 John Woo movie "Windtalkers."
Name of Navajo speakers in world war 2?
code talkers
Who were the first 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.
Which part of World War 2 did the Navajo code talkers become beneficial to?
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.
What are Navajo codes?
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.
How many Navajo code talkers were eventually used in World War 2?
400-500
What native American tribe assisted the us in world war 2?
Navajo as code talkers
Was the Navajo code ever discovered?
The Navajo code was created using Navajo as a base to a alphabet substitution code in 1942 by Philip Johnston and the original 29 Navajo code talkers. He was the son of a missioonary and had grow up on the Navajo reservation. The Japanese never broke the code. About 400 of the 540 of the Navajo who served in the Marines in WWII were code talkers. The code even could not be broken by Navajos who were captured and tortured by the Japanese. Hr said after the war to one of the code talkers; "I never figured out what you guys who got me into all that trouble were saying." It was used in the Pacific war, in the Occupation of Japan and in the Korean war. It was declassified in 1968. They could not receive recognition until after that.
Why were the Navajo code talkers so effective in World War 2?
Navajo is a very difficult language and impossible for the Japanese to decipher
What has the author S McClain written?
S. McClain has written: 'Search for the Navajo code talkers' -- subject(s): Armed Forces, Cryptography, Navajo language, Navajo code talkers, Indian Participation, World War, 1939-1945, History, Indian troops
Which Indian tribes language was used as code in war?
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
What Native American tribes were used by the US military as code talkers in World War 2?
The Navajo.
What effect did world war 2 have on code talkers?
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.
