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Navajo Code Talkers

The unbreakable code

World Wars

The importance of coding systems in communications

WWI : the emergence of Code Talkers

WWI

  • using Native Americans who were fluent in both their traditional language and in English to send secret messages in battle

  • Cherokee, Choctaw, and Comanche

Code Talker

Philip Johnston

Philip Johnston

  • Son of a missionary to the Navajos
  • WWI veteran
  • One of the few non-Navajo speaker
  • Pioneer in the development of Navajo code

Philip Johnston

The Navajo

The Navajo language

World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted

  • Unwritten language of extreme complexity

  • No alphabet or symbols

  • Spoken only on the Navajo lands

Code Talkers project

Use and recognition

World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted

Battle of Iwo Jima

Congressional Gold Medal Awarded to the Code Talkers

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