Profiles of the American West: WWII Navajo Code Talkers - How the West is Fun

PBS Learning Media
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Classroom Material
Keywords
secret code native americans american indians code words world war II WWII WW2 world war two second world war Indigenous Peoples First Nations
Subjects
History-Social Science
Grade Levels
Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5
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Profiles of the American West: WWII Navajo Code Talkers - How the West is Fun

Over 400 men served as Navajo Code Talkers during the Second World War, using words from the Navajo language as code words for military objects, for example the Navajo word for owl represented an observation plane.
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PBS Learning Media

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