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A Rare Recording of Navajo Code Talker Dan Akee
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A Rare Recording of Navajo Code Talker Dan Akee
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A Rare Recording of Navajo Code Talker Dan Akee
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A Rare Recording of Navajo Code Talker Dan Akee

Written by Dan Akee

Narrated by Dan Akee

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Dan Akee was part of the Navajo code talker units of the US Marine Corps that relayed radio and phone messages in their native dialect during World War II operations.

The method was fast and indecipherable to enemy eavesdroppers, as Navajo is an unwritten language of extreme complexity - with its syntax, tonal qualities, and various dialects - making it unintelligible to anyone without extensive exposure and training. It has no alphabet or symbols, and is spoken only on the Navajo lands of the American Southwest. By one estimate, at the time of World War II, the Navajo language was understood by fewer than 30 non-Navajos.

Approximately 400 Navajo code talkers took part in every assault the US Marines conducted in the Pacific from 1942 to 1945. They served in all six Marine divisions, Marine Raider battalions, and Marine parachute units, transmitting messages by telephone and radio in their native language. The code was never broken by the Japanese, and its security has been credited with contributing significantly to the capture of Iwo Jima in 1945.

The following are two recordings from code talker Dan Akee.

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Release dateMay 23, 2023
ISBN9781593167929
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A Rare Recording of Navajo Code Talker Dan Akee

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    I thought that actual code would be included. I think it is a dam shame that of the hundreds of WW II movies that there is not a single indication that they used this critically important code to transmit and receive information.