Posted on 08/14/2024 6:00:58 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska
Hi Everybody!
(((HUGS)))
It is good to know that my wedding anniversary falls on such an auspicious day. 42 years and counting.
Hi Kathy, thanks for tonight’s Canteen and for honoring and remembering these remarkable men who served America with pride.
May God Bless the Code Talkers. The * Code * never broken …..
An FBI guy told me one time that the Japanese tried capturing their own Navajo to help them out but unfortunately for them there are different dialects just as there are in other languages and they soon found that they had the wrong Navajo.
Good evening, ML...(HUGS))...hope you are enjoying some nice summer days.
Bttt
Always the Marines and the Navajos, the great Army history of Indian code talkers that stretched from their Army using origins in WWI through all Army theaters of WWII, the Pacific, Africa, and Europe, and also using quite a few different tribes.
At least the Choctaw of WWI get a mention.
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The Japanese captured a Navajo POW, Joe Kieyoomia, who wasn’t part of the Code Talker program. He was forced to listen to the transmissions by his captors. The Japanese had studied the Navajo transmissions and had narrowed it down through a lengthy process (I can’t understand Japanese so can’t read the primary sources. Sorry for the vagueness), to figure out it was Navajo. Kieyoomia listened into these transmissions and heard phrases like “Red soil ahead” among all of the organizational information that was also coded. He thought it was complete gibberish, and told the Japanese that it made no sense. The Japanese thought he was lying, and tortured him regularly to extract more information about the Navajo language and code out of him. I don’t feel as though Kieyoomia’s resistance to Japanese efforts led the Japanese to believe that it really was just the language, and such limited their code breaking efforts there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Kieyoomia
Joe Lee Kieyoomia (November 21, 1919 – February 17, 1997) was a Navajo soldier in New Mexico’s 200th Coast Artillery unit who was captured by the Imperial Japanese Army after the fall of the Philippines in 1942 during World War II. Kieyoomia was a POW in Nagasaki at the time of the atomic bombing but survived, reportedly having been shielded from the effects of the bomb by the concrete walls of his cell.[1]
The Japanese tried unsuccessfully to have him decode messages in the “Navajo Code” used by the United States Marine Corps, but although Kieyoomia understood Navajo, the messages sounded like nonsense to him because even though the code was based on the Navajo language, it was decipherable only by individuals specifically trained in its usage.[1]
Kieyoomia is notable for having not only survived the Bataan death march and related internment and torture in a concentration camp, but also being a hibakusha (survivor of an atomic bomb blast).
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I'm glad the Code Talkers were finally publicly acknowledged, though I understand why they were kept under wraps for so long.
What a fascinating story and they couldn't tell anyone.
Very few are alive today. I periodically check on Thomas Begay and am pleased he's still alive. I still remember meeting him like it was yesterday, and it was 19 years ago.
A brief video of Thomas Begay talking about the Battle of Iwo Jima
Good evening, Pro...so many tribes (PC?) contributed so much to the United States in several wars. We owe them a huge debt.
Good evening, no-to-illegals...they were a big part of the “win”. And never broken for sure,
Evening, Kathy.
I’m impressed at the patriotism of our minorities back in the day.
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