1. The Navajo Code Talkers
The son of a missionary to the Navajos, Johnston was one of the few non-Navajo people able to fluently speak Navajo, because he'd lived with the Navajos for so many years. ... There had been previous attempts to use a Native American language as a communication code, but those attempts had failed due to the fact that the Indian language didn't contain words which related to "airplane", "tank", or "admiral". ...
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