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How the Navajo Code Talkers Worked - Stuff You Should Know

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In WWII the US Marines devised an unbreakable code-within-a-code made from Navajo, one of the most linguistically difficult languages in the world. A handful of Navajos sent messages on the frontlines in a language they’d been forbidden to speak as school kids.

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How the Navajo Code Talkers Worked - Stuff You Should Know