WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
THE START OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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They were not Navajo, only Navajo can speak the code.
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The code was made of several languages put together.
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They were not familiar with the Navajo language and could not easily learn it as adults.
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They did not know the US was using a code.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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-3: -The United States Marine Corps possessed an extraordinary, unbreakable code during World War II: the Navajo language. Utilized in the Pacific theater, the Navajo code talkers enabled the Marine Corps to coordinate massive operations, such as the assault on Iwo Jima, without revealing any information to the enemy.
Detailed explanation-4: -Yes, the Japanese had a pretty good idea that the language that Code was based on was Navajo. This is why they tortured a captured Navajo named Joe Kieyoomia (1919–1997). He was captured in the Philippines and then sent on the Bataan Death march. Later, he survived Nagasaki, too.