Navajo Code Talkers

By: Monica Sosa Renegreg Vera

Background
Before World War II Start of the Navajo Code Talkers

1. They were misunderstood 2. Thousands of their people were killed

1. Phillip Johnston

Phillip Johnston
Background
Was born on September 17, 1892, in Topeka, Kansas died on September 11, 1978, in San Diego, California Spent a lot of his childhood in the Navajo reservation. Grew up with the Navajo children and learned their language and customs. As an adult, he became an engineer and lectured about the Navajos

The Navajo code talkers project

Got the idea to attempt a way to code military communications using the Navajo language a newspaper story.

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Training
The first detachment of Navajo Communications. Specialists pose for this group picture upon completion of their basic training program in May, 1942.

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