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“For us, everything is memory; it’s part of our heritage. We have no written language. Our songs, our prayers, our stories, they’re all handed down from grandfather to father to children-we listen, we hear, we learn to remember everything.” These are the words of Carl Gorman, one of the original twenty-nine Navajo code talkers for World War II. The Navajo code talkers were a rare and essential part of World War II. The history of the Navajo code talkers in World War II can be put into three categories: The start of code talkers, the Navajo code and their culture, and the importance of the code talkers. The main reason the Allied forces needed code talkers was, unlike most wars, World War II was fought mainly on islands spread out along the …show more content…
In May of 1942, the first twenty-nine recruited Navajos arrived at Camp Elliott. Unfortunately though, the U.S. military was still skeptical of the idea of using Navajo code talkers. This was because after World War I, Germany and Japan sent students to the U.S. to study Native American languages. The U.S. assumed this would allow the Axis powers to easily crack another Native American based code, until they learned just how complex the Navajo language was (“Navajo Code Talkers and the Unbreakable

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