Navajo language
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Navajo or Navaho is a Southern Athabaskan language of the Na-Dené family, through which it is related to languages spoken across the western areas of North America. Navajo is spoken primarily in the S
General Clayton Barney Vogel's recommendation letter for Navajo to be used by code talkers during World War II
Navajo code talkers, Saipan, June 1944
Code talker
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A code talker was a person employed by the military during wartime to use a little-known language as a means of secret communication. The term is most often used for United States service members duri
Navajo language
…in the Navajo Nation. In World War II, speakers of the Navajo language joined the military and developed a code for sending secret messages. These code talkers' messages are widely credited with saving many lives and winning some of the most decisive battles in the war. Navajo has a fairly large phonemic…
Choctaw soldiers in training in World War I for coded radio and telephone transmissions
Comanche code talkers of the 4th Signal Company
Code Talkers Monument Ocala, Florida Memorial Park
Navajo code talker veteran Thomas Begay with a framed picture commemorating National Navajo Code Talkers Day