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Who were the first Code Talkers?

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The code-talkers of World War II mostly refer to the Native Americans who used parts of their indigenous languages to translate secret tactical messages into code, then decipher the code back into the message. They were used in the Pacific Theater of World War II, and, to a lesser extent, in the European Theater. The most decorated Native American code-talkers were Navajo, but Native Americans of the Comanche and Meskwaki people also served as code-talkers during the war.

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The first Navajo Code Talkers were in World War 1. Then next code talkers were Navajos recruited to be code talkers in the Pacific campaigns in World War 2.

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Although Hollywood has made the Navajo Code Talkers more well known through the misguided movie, "Wind Talkers", the military also used Commanche and Choctaw Code Talkers.

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What is a synonym for code talkers?

wind talkers


What effect did world war 2 have on code talkers?

A lot of code talkers were killed off because when the Japanese saw them in the planes, they would kill the code talkers right away because the code talkers were the main source of communication.


What is the movie based on the code talkers' mission?

The movie you're looking for is "Code Talkers," starring Nicolas Cage. It features Code Talkers during the WWII Battle of Saipan.


What is the exposition of code talkers?

Code Talkers were specially trained in the art of code talking in the language of the Navajo people. As I understand it, most were of Navajo descent but not all.


How many Navajo code talkers served in the military?

Some Navajo were drafted but the Code Talkers were volunteers.


Who were the code talkers?

Code talkers were Native Americans who served the United States in World War II by using their native languages to describe artillery, armaments, troop movements and so forth. This scheme allowed the war-time commanders to communicate through the code talkers with the presumption that the 'code' in use would never be deciphered. They were correct: the code used by the code talkers was never 'broken'. Read more, below.


How did the code talkers communicated?

Code talkers were native Americans who spoke to each other in their native language. Since their language was unknown to the enemy they communications were secure.


Was the Navajo code talkers in the army?

the Marines, actually


How many code talkers are alive today?

One.


Which Indian tribes language was used as code in war?

When you think of code talkers you think of the Navajo during WWII. However, less famous, but equally important were the Commanche and Choctaw code talkers


What were the Indians called who made a special code to communicate in the war?

Code Talkers


Why did they name it the Navajo Code Talkers?

The code talkers were native American from the Navajo tribe. They used their native language to send messages that the Japanese couldn't decode or understand.