Unusual Allies: The Navajo Code Talkers

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This paper looks at the assistance of the Navajo Code Talkers in World War II. It documents how the Navajo language was used for communicating in secret code, thereby stumping the Japanese.

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"On the morning of February 23, 1945, a foreign language crackled over filed radios across Iwo Jima: "Naastsosi Thanzie Dibeh Shida Dahnestsa Tkin Wollachee Moasi Lin Achi." Intercepted and flawlessly translated by Marine cryptographers, the word went out: The Stars and stripe flew over Mount Suribachi. It has been said by high military officials that the Marines would not have taken Iwo Jima without the aid of this specialized team of cryptographers. In one of the most ironic twists in American history, the Navajo Nation came to the aid of the American government that had tried to eradicate it just two generations before. Many of the Pacific battles won by the U.S. in WWII owed their victories to the 420 Navajo who would come to be known as the Code Talkers."

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