The Navajo and 11 Hopi soldiers used the the easiest of the Navajo language, to help America defeat the Japanese.
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There were many Navajoes stationed in the Pacific as communications radio men speaking their native language as code. They became known as "wind talkers".
They were the "Wind Talkers". They worked in communications in the Pacific. Because they used their native language, the Japanese could not break their code as they did with our other codes.
They were called "wind talkers" or simply code talkers. They took advantage of the fact that Navajo was a spoken language that practically no one outside the tribe was fluent in. Messages sent in Navajo or other language codes presented another level of difficulty to anyone trying to break the code.
Navajo is a very difficult language and impossible for the Japanese to decipher