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Navajo Code Talkers

How it started

How it started

  • 1942 - 29 Navajo men joined the U.S marines
  • 1942 to 1945 - used in all assaults
  • top secret
  • not allowed to tell anyone

More on How

.Later other divisions of the U.S military would use the Navajo code talkers

.The main reason why this was developed was because japan was breaking every code that was made

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.The idea for using this code came from Philip Johnston in 1942

. He was on Navajo reservation

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H`ow it worked

How it worked

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more detail's about the code

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.The first 29 men were told that when they made the code that no other Navajo should know what there saying

.for example the code word for grenade was the Navajo word for potato ,nimasii

more detail's about the code

More on How

.The first code that they used Type 1 code was made up of 26 Navajo terms

.It is not a written language there for Japan could not crack it

More detail's about the code

More on How

.They would have been assigned to be in a group of two

.If the code was ever in jeopardy the other person in the group would have to kill there respected code talker

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In battle one of them would be the radio operator and they other one would be the code talker

wars they were in world war 2

Wars in

.They were present in D Day and Iwo Jima.

.In fact major Howard

Said with out the code talkers they would have lost in Iwo Jima

Tech used

Tech used

.This code would be used just when talking.

.it was used for fast communication

. They would use telephones and radios

After and rewards

Recognize and after

.The code was still used until 1968

.President Reagan on Aug 14 , 1882 started National Navajo Code Talkers Day.

.In 2001 4 of the 5 original code talkers were given the congressional gold medal

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