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SALT LAKE CITY — Navajo Code Talkers and their significant contributions during U.S. wars abroad, especially World War II, were honored this week with a new statue at the Utah Veterans Memorial in West Valley City.
Several hundreds of Navajo service members helped to secretly and securely transmit sensitive information during World War II.
As noted by the National Endowment for the Humanities , the U.S. Marines were “desperate to find a secure way to communicate vital information with precious little time,” and eventually the Navajo language was approved as a communication code.
Specifically, the Navajo language was used to spell out the locations of the Japanese military and U.S. soldiers. The language was also used to help place artillery and as a conduit for wartime communication.
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