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Today, the term Code Talker is still strongly associated with the bilingual Navajo speakers trained in the Navajo Code during World War II by the US Marine Corps to serve in all six divisions of the Corps and the Marine Raiders of the Pacific theater. However, the use of Native American communicators pre-dates WWII.
Nov 15, 2014 · Albequerque, New Mexico – A Navajo veteran talks about his experience as one of the real ‘windtalkers’ of the Second World War — as a Navajo code talker. Thomas Begay is just one of the estimated 170,699 vets residing in New Mexico.
May 29, 2014 · Only the Navajo, with more code talkers than all other Indigenous nations combined, have become relatively well known, in part due to the Hollywood film “Windtalkers.”
- Jesse Greenspan
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Nov 28, 2017 · So in August 1942, 15 code talkers – just over half the recruits – joined the Marines for combat duty amid the assault on Guadalcanal. After that first battle, Maj. Gen. Alexander Vandegrift ...
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- Eric Levenson
Nov 1, 2021 · The Navajo Code Talkers – U.S. Marines of Navajo descent who developed and utilized a special code using their indigenous language to transmit sensitive information during World War II – are legendary figures in military and cryptography history.
Nov 10, 2023 · Code Talkers from 14 different Native American nations served in World War I and World War II, including over 400 Navajo Marines during World War II. After the war, the Japanese chief of intelligence acknowledged they never broke the Navajo code.
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Nov 28, 2017 · In jungle combat, stamina, Spartan habits, ingenuity, scouting and tracking skill, and utter disregard for hardship stood the Navajo in good stead. At first assigned mainly at the company-battalion level, code-talkers became virtually indispensable.
