[MRCA] Fwd: Navajo Code Talkers - what they actually said!

[Tim]

Hi Rob - Yes, that too...Here is at least a variant of the dictionary the
Navajo's used.  With a politically-incorrect cartoon cover..(Poor TBY!)

https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/n/navajo-code-talker-dictionary.html
(there is a modern "shorthand" phrase/item list with daily-changing symbols
still in use today..- keeps messages short)

Interesting that there were 14 different "tribes" who contributed to the
effort - and presumably used 14 different languages.  Surely they were used
in like "pairs" within given large organizations to get around that
problem.  Eg:  Comanches served with the 4th Signal Company, 4th Infantry
Division at Normandy....  Yep, I need to get Nez's book and get smart...
Thanks!
Tim
N6CC

On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 11:49 PM Rob Flory <farmer.rob.flory at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Tim,
> The code was a little more sophisticated and efficient than the phonetic
> method you describe, which was used for names and for words not covered in
> the code.
>
> There were shorthand names for things like rank, different kinds of ships,
> aircraft, weapons, etc.
>
> I recommend the book Code Talker by Chester Nez, among others.
>
> RF
>
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2021, 1:15 PM Tim <timsamm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Rob!  I am doing a display on the Code Talkers at our local
>> Veterans Memorial Building on Veterans Day 2021.  I will certainly use this
>> video along with representative equipment.  I had not seen it before...  So
>> the messages were generally sent in Navaho "phonetics", letter by letter
>> like Able, Baker, Charlie etc.  Except their words did not start with the
>> English sound of that particular letter.  Simple, effective...
>> Did anyone else notice the clip of the Marine talking on the TCS in the
>> MZ Jeep had the scene reversed (left for right) ?
>> Thanks again..
>> Tim
>> N6CC
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 6:17 AM ROBERT FORTE <rvforte at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> FYI, ROB
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