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Navajo Code Talkers

Navajo Code Talkers. Navajo Language. No alphabet No symbols Spoken only on Navajo lands in Southwest Less than 30 non-Navajos could speak/understand the language at the beginning of WWII (none of them Japanese). Man v. Machine.

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Navajo Code Talkers

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  1. Navajo Code Talkers

  2. Navajo Language • No alphabet • No symbols • Spoken only on Navajo lands in Southwest • Less than 30 non-Navajos could speak/understand the language at the beginning of WWII (none of them Japanese)

  3. Man v. Machine • Navajos could encode, transmit, and decode a three-line English message in 20 seconds • Machines of the time required 30 minutes to do the same

  4. Iwo Jima • Major Howard Connor, 5th Marine Division signal officer, declared • "Were it not for the Navajos, the Marines would never have taken Iwo Jima." • Connor had six Navajo code talkers working around the clock during the first two days of the battle. Those six sent and received over 800 messages, all without error.

  5. Navajo POW • The Navajo code talkers even stymied a Navajo soldier taken prisoner at Bataan. • The Navajo soldier, forced to listen to the jumbled words of talker transmissions, said to a code talker after the war • "I never figured out what you guys who got me into all that trouble were saying."

  6. Code Talker Alphabet • Letter A • "wol-la-chee" (ant) • "be-la-sana" (apple) • "tse-nill" (axe)

  7. Decode the message • tsah (needle) • wol-la-chee (ant) • ah-keh-di- glini (victor) • tsah-ah-dzoh (yucca) • NAVY

  8. Meaning? • "besh- lo" (iron fish)

  9. Meaning? • dah-he- tih-hi" (hummingbird)

  10. Saipan

  11. Questions?

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