How did the Red Indian people help US soldier to break the Japanese military code during WW2.?

Answer 1

There is a great movie about this subject called WINDTALKERS that you might want to watch.

United States Marine sergeants assigned to protect two Navajo Marine code talkers in the battle of Saipan. These codetalkers were used because of their unique native language which the Japanese forces could not decipher. However, the Marines were ordered to kill the code talkers should they face capture by the enemy, and it wasn't long before they were faced with this difficult decision.

Basically, America switched to Native American language because it was determined that the Japanese could not decipher their language NA - YA - EE (the language) .

Answer 2

The Dene did not crack the Japanese codes they supplied the US military a "code" that the Japanese could not break. They spoke Navajo to each other, a language that was spoken only by a small group. There was never a attempt for anyone to write it down. I doubt that any of the japanese knew about the language or the people. They were sent out into the field to report back to HQ's to report what was going on, call for artillery strikes and specify what the troops needed for resupply. The Navajo word for potato was used to id grenades They were call Code talkers and were very brave.

Answer 3

The "windtalkers" were not code breakers. They developed a military jargon for the Navajo language, and because it wasn't in code, the japanese could not break it, they just had no way to translate it.

The "code breakers" were signals intelligence specialists that worked hard to intercept Japanese transmissions, and then comapred those transmissions to what was happening in the Japanese military until correlations were made.

For instance, the Americans believe that location AE meant Midway Island, so to gain confirmation, they transmitted an open message to Pearl Harbor that their fresh water purifiers were down. They later intercepted a Japanese message that said AE had no fresh water.

Answer 4

No, I don't think he would, because he is Austrailian and would probably be an ally. Also, that would be a very specific leak of critical information bearing upon a current war. Information of that nature would not be in the database leaked to Assange, because military intelligence would not be so careless as to include it in a file that is accessible to so many employees. I read in a newspaper that up to 2.5 million employees had access to this file. I wonder if this is true. Here is a quote from Speigel, the German paper that was provided wikileaks ( one of five international papers that received it): " The Americans share some of the blame, however. In order to improve the flow of information between different officials, the State Department created its own computer network for classified documents, one that 2.5 million US citizens had access to. The leaking of the diplomatic cables was an accident that was waiting to happen. " I would hope that our military intelligence would not include code breaking files inside of these cables!

Answer 5

I think you have the story turned around.

The American Indian, who was very well represented in the USMC, had a language all of his own. The Americans didn't understand it, nor did the Japanese.

The American military, realizing the Japanese were listening in on their radio transmissions, needed a way to communicate, that the Japanese could not intercept.

The American Indians came up with a solution to this by transmitting radio messages in their native tongue. This became so successful, that the military set up radio schools for native Americans only. They combined their language with military terminology, in order to communicate from one military unit to another. All radio operators were American Indians from that point on, during WWII. That is, Marine units fighting in the Pacific Theater.

A specific nation of American Indian was host to this idea, yet I fail to remember which nation it was, that developed the program.
Yes, that's right, it was the Navajo Indian that brought this idea to the table.

Answer 6

I don't know of the Navajoes breaking the Japanese code. What they did was make it impossible for the Japanese to break our code Their language has to be passed on in the tribe and is very difficult to learn. The US used them to pass messages in their language, and their dialect, and the Japanese were never able to decode any of our messages.Unfortunately, there were only a handful of the code talkers.

Answer 7

You are talking about two completely separate operations.

The US military broke the Japanese "Purple" code fairly early in WWII.

Later on the US Marine Corp utilized the "Code Talkers" who were Navajo Indians speaking in their tribal language. The Japanese were not able to translate that language.

Both operations were extremely successful and helped our forces tactically and strategically.

Answer 8

I'd just like to add that the reason the Japanese couldn't break the code used by the Navajo code talkers, is that there is no written form of the language, it is spoken ONLY, so there were no references that the Japanese could turn to.

Answer 9

The American Indians used their native language and it was a code that the Japanese couldn't couldn't break.

Answer 10

They didn't. The Navaho had a language which defied code breaking. The US used that for their communications. The US had the Japanese codes broken before the war even started.