[muir_redwoods]

What a brilliant idea it was to communicate in the Navajo language. I would love to have seen the Japanese code breakers listening in reaction to the “code”.

Ironic that both Navajo and Japanese had ancestors who migrated from Central Asia to their eventual homeland.

RIP Sir, thank you for your service.

[Verginius Rufus]

The code talkers weren't just speaking the normal Navajo language, but had an elaborate code to make it even harder for the enemy to crack. German linguists had studied a number of American Indian languages, but none had learned Navajo (of course the code talkers were being used in the Pacific, but Japan was an ally of Germany).

The Marine Corps Museum in Triangle, VA, has a section devoted to the code talkers.