What was the reason for the American victories over the Pacific during WW 2,especially against the Japanese ?
The most successful code ever devised was used by the US armed forces during the WW2 in the Pacific.They simply had Navajo Indians talking to each other using specific Navajo words for military terms, e.g., chay-da-gahi-nail-tsaidi (literally tortoise killer) for anti tank weapon. The Navajo language is highly tonal ,exceedingly complex and has no written form.And not a single person in Japan knew about it. In september 1945,the San Diego Union described the code for saying, “For 3 years,wherever the Marines landed,the Japanese got an earful of strange gurgling noises intersepted with other sounds resembling the call of a Tibetan monk and the sound of a hot water bottle being emptied.” The Japanese never broke the code and many Navajo code talkers were awarded high military honors for extraordinary service and bravery.The fact that the US broke the Japanese code but the Japanese never broke the Navajo code played a crucial role in the American victories in the Pacific.
