Code Talking Research Paper

Code talking is very important to the history of the world in multiple ways. A code talker is a person who uses obscure languages as a means of secret communication during wartime. During WWII code talkers were used to spy on the Japanese military to make sure they weren’t going to get involved in the war after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The U.S. navy was nervous about what kind of weapons they had and how they were going to use those weapons against the U.S.
The role of the code talker as we know was to protect the U.S. navy during the war and to outsmart the allies of the German which happened to be the Japanese, but they did more than that. Chester Nes is a guy that happened to get pick to be in the Original 29. The Original 29 are the first twentynine native Navajos that were picked to serve. “It's one of the greatest parts of history that we used our own native language during World War II," says Nez. Nez as you can see was honored that he was chosen to be apart of the Original 29. In school Nez always got in trouble …show more content…
Also, a few spoke this language and there was no written alphabet. The military created a top-secret phonetic alphabet so that the Code Talkers could use written materials in their training and at other times as needed. This code work in two different way. In “ Type One Code”,the Code Talker received a string of seemingly unrelated Navajo words. They translated the words into English, and then used the first letter of each English word to spell out the message. In "Type Two Code," messages were sent directly in the Navajo language, translated straight from English. Many technical military terms were translated into Navajo terms that were easy to remember. For example, the word pronounced "besh-lo," which meant "iron fish," was used for "submarine." Some of these terms were borrowed from other Native American