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Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Explores from the Native point of view the complex story of the role that the Native American code talkers and the Navajo language played in secret communications during World War II. No cryptography system proved as effective during the war as did the use of Navajo code talkers using their tribal language to transmit military communiques. Countless American lives were saved because of the service of these brave young Native American Marines
Series
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2006], ©1998
Language
English
Description
During the second world war, the United States and its allies were struggling to find a code by which to communicate across the Pacific Ocean -- one that could not be broken by the Japanese enemy. The solution came in the form of the Navajo people, whose language was as elusive as it was complex. Through their incredible linguistic skills, the Allied forces were able to convey life-or-death information to one another -- information that, in some cases,...
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