USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Marine Corps leadership selected 29 Navajo men, the Navajo Code Talkers, who created a code based on the complex, unwritten Navajo language. The code primarily used word association by assigning a Navajo word to key phrases and military tactics.

Detailed explanation-2: -Why wasn’t the code ever broken? The Navajo language has no definite rules and a tone that is guttural. The language was unwritten at the time, notes Carl Gorman, one of the 29 original Navajo code talkers. “You had to base it solely on the sounds you were hearing, ” he says.

Detailed explanation-3: -After the war, however, Japan’s own chief of intelligence admitted there was one code they were never able to break-the Navajo code used by the Marine Corps.

Detailed explanation-4: -Joe Kieyoomia (November 21, 1919 – February 17, 1997) was a Navajo soldier in New Mexico’s 200th Coast Artillery unit who was captured by the Imperial Japanese Army after the fall of the Philippines in 1942 during World War II.

Detailed explanation-5: -Most people have heard of the famous Navajo (or Diné) code talkers who used their traditional language to transmit secret Allied messages in the Pacific theater of combat during World War II.