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LITTLE KNOWN NAVY HISTORY!
Most people have heard about the Navajo "Code Talkers" during WWII. One of the movie that brought the code talkers to the front was the 2002 movie "Windtalkers" starring Nicholas Cage.
BUT DID YOU KNOW....that during WWII the US Navy implemented a program to train WAVES (Woman Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) to understand the code talkers....In WWII, the code talkers were largely a group of more than 400 Marines who were bilingual Navajo speakers. By using a spoken Navajo code, they were able to dramatically speed up communications while being undecipherable to the Japanese.
Most code talkers were Navajo, but as there were too few Navajo speakers the Navy set up a program to train the WAVES to understand the code talkers.
Ensign Winnie Breegle, a cryptographer, was one of the WAVES to become a code talker. She is the one in the picture.
Ensign Breegle had to learn codes created by Navajo Indians by memory alone; nothing could be written down and their work could not be discussed.
To ensure complete secrecy and confidentiality, all of the cryptographers who served as code talkers during WWII had to sign non-disclosure agreements. Ensign Breegle could not talk about her role in American history for 25 years.
“They were always telling us ‘the walls have ears,’ they’d say, and so we didn’t talk about it,” she said in an interview in 2012.
Ensign Breegle believes it is the 200 Navajo Indians who initially served as US Marine Corps code-talkers who are true heroes.
By 1945, 540 Navajo Indians served as Marines; Between 375 and 450 were code-talkers. Navajo code-talkers fought in WWII in Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Peleliu, Iwo Jima and the Navajo code-talkers took part in every assault the US Marines conducted in the Pacific from 1942 to 1945.
They served in all six Marine divisions, Marine Raider battalions and Marine parachute units, transmitting messages by telephone and radio in their native language, a code that the Japanese never broke.
Update.
Due to this covert government program, to this date women still talk in codes, leaving their hapless husbands so confuse to the brink of insanity!
Most people have heard about the Navajo "Code Talkers" during WWII. One of the movie that brought the code talkers to the front was the 2002 movie "Windtalkers" starring Nicholas Cage.
BUT DID YOU KNOW....that during WWII the US Navy implemented a program to train WAVES (Woman Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) to understand the code talkers....In WWII, the code talkers were largely a group of more than 400 Marines who were bilingual Navajo speakers. By using a spoken Navajo code, they were able to dramatically speed up communications while being undecipherable to the Japanese.
Most code talkers were Navajo, but as there were too few Navajo speakers the Navy set up a program to train the WAVES to understand the code talkers.
Ensign Winnie Breegle, a cryptographer, was one of the WAVES to become a code talker. She is the one in the picture.
Ensign Breegle had to learn codes created by Navajo Indians by memory alone; nothing could be written down and their work could not be discussed.
To ensure complete secrecy and confidentiality, all of the cryptographers who served as code talkers during WWII had to sign non-disclosure agreements. Ensign Breegle could not talk about her role in American history for 25 years.
“They were always telling us ‘the walls have ears,’ they’d say, and so we didn’t talk about it,” she said in an interview in 2012.
Ensign Breegle believes it is the 200 Navajo Indians who initially served as US Marine Corps code-talkers who are true heroes.
By 1945, 540 Navajo Indians served as Marines; Between 375 and 450 were code-talkers. Navajo code-talkers fought in WWII in Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Peleliu, Iwo Jima and the Navajo code-talkers took part in every assault the US Marines conducted in the Pacific from 1942 to 1945.
They served in all six Marine divisions, Marine Raider battalions and Marine parachute units, transmitting messages by telephone and radio in their native language, a code that the Japanese never broke.
Update.
Due to this covert government program, to this date women still talk in codes, leaving their hapless husbands so confuse to the brink of insanity!
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