Many Americans who have studied World War II are familiar with the Navajo code talkers recruited by the U.S. Marines during World War II in the Pacific theater to transmit information in Navajo, a language which the Japanese did not know and which their code breakers could not decipher. The story of the code talkers was popularized in the 2002 Hollywood drama “Windtalkers.” They deserve the attention: they were instrumental in communications in the run-up at Iwo Jima.
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