HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
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Question
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Native Americans flew many airplanes and led important bombing raids on Japan
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Native Americans were sent to internment camps
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they were not involved in the war
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Used codes based on the Navajo language to send important military messages about troop movement and battle plans
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Because the Japanese had broken all the codes sent over the radio waves, the Marines were desperate to find a secure way to communicate vital information with precious little time. After several successful tests, the Navajo language was approved as a communication code.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Navajo were ordered to keep their wartime jobs secret. It wasn’t until 1968 that the Navajo Code Talkers program was declassified by the military. The military did not order the Comanche Code Talkers to keep silent about their jobs in the war.