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Used from 1942 till 1968 the code used to communicate in the military was the native language Navajo Native Americans was used (Navajo Code Talkers Facts). As a military form of communication to confuse the Japanese so as not to let secret messages be known during World War II. The Code talkers were Navajo men, who fought for their country and would talk in their native language over the radio to communicate for World War II to help the men of the American Military throughout the Pacific. These men did what no one else could, that was keep a code secrete no matter what happened to them.
Navajo is a name of a tribe in the American West and are also the people who became the Code Talkers during World War II and were used up until Vietnam, but they suffered like everyone else who were not of the white race of the time. They also had to deal with the fact that they come from a Nation made of different tribes that are a proud people. Peter MacDonald was one of the Navajo Code talkers. His parents were livestock mainly with some farming and in his interview he tells about his people and when he became a Code Talker. He is from the clan Hashk’aa hadzohò meaning Yucca Fruit …show more content…
The code talkers were used because it became a code that was unbreakable and it was unbreakable because it was a language of the Native American tribe that was not written or well-known and because of this it was not studied by Germany and or Japan when they sent over people to study the native languages of the Native Americans after World War I when they sent people over to learn the languages like that Cherokee, Choctaw, and Comanche (Navajo Code Talkers and the Unbreakable Code). The Germans sent students over to learn these languages so that they were not surprised like they were during World War I when the United States surprised the Germans (Navajo Code Talkers and the Unbreakable

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