Other Native American communicators—now referred to as code talkers—were deployed by the United States Army during World War II, including Lakota, [4] Meskwaki, Mohawk, [5] [6] Comanche, Tlingit, [7] Hopi, [8] Cree, and Crow soldiers; they served in the Pacific, North African, and European theaters.

During World War II, the Marine Corps used one of the thousands of languages spoken in the world to create an unbreakable code: Navajo. World War II wasn’t the first time a Native American language was used to create a code.

The work of hundreds of code talkers was essential to Allied victory in World War II, and they were present at many important battles, including at Utah Beach during the D-Day invasion in France, and at Iwo Jima in the Pacific.

2020年4月16日 · Long unrecognized because of the continued value of their language as a security classified code, the Navajo code talkers of World War II were honored for their contributions to defense on...

Code talker, any of more than 400 Native American soldiers who transmitted sensitive wartime messages by speaking their native languages, using them as codes. In World War I and especially in World War II, the code talkers provided U.S. forces with fast communications over open radio waves.

2016年10月4日 · When the U.S. entered World War II, military leaders remembered the success of the Choctaw Code Talkers and enlisted new recruits from the Navajo, Kiowa, Hopi, Creek, Seminole, and other tribes to encrypt messages for the Army and Marine Corps.

2014年5月29日 · Code talkers made an even bigger impact during World War II, when the U.S. government specifically recruited Comanche, Hopi, Meskwaki, Chippewa-Oneida and Navajo tribal members for such work....

The first Native code talkers served during World War I, using tribal languages to transmit messages that German eavesdroppers found impossible to decipher. The code talkers of 1918 made a lasting impression on the U.S. military.

2022年11月3日 · During World War II, sending and receiving codes without the risk of the enemy deciphering the transmission required hours of encrypting and decrypting the code. The U.S. Marine Corps, in an effort to find quicker and more secure ways to send and receive code, enlisted Navajos as code talkers.

Committed to helping Nahasdzáán, Mother Earth, and the United States, young Diné men joined the Marines and were selected to become code talkers, not knowing they would be tasked with developing and using the Navajo language as a secret weapon.