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

[Rob Flory]

Tim, thanks for the link to the dictionary.
They might be right about the TBY.  Haha.
When you say there were 14 different tribes that contributed to the effort,
I believe you meant the war effort, not the Navajo code.  I'm offering that
as a clarification lest others take the wrong meaning.
RF

On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 1:35 PM Tim <timsamm at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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!)
>
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> 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:
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>> 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:
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>>> 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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>>>> *Date: *July 15, 2021 at 7:10:08 AM EDT
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