AZ: The History of Arizona podcast · David Rookhuyzen
Episode 247: The Code Talkers, Part I: 356,000 Ways to Say Go
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Navajo Code Talkers transmitted military messages in 40 seconds, while standard methods took an hour.
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A careful setup for the code talker story, with enough historical context to make the groundwork matter.
Episode 247 works as a measured setup for the Navajo Code Talkers story. It explains why Navajo made sense for code work: the Germans had overlooked it after World War I, it was not written down, it had resisted English borrowings, and only about 30 non-Navajo were thought to…
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You want the origin story before the code becomes a battlefield weapon.
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