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Code talkers, (also sometimes known as "Wind Talkers")

The Code Talkers transmitted messages over military telephone or radio communications nets using formal or informally developed codes built upon their native languages. Simply put, codes can be broken, languages must be understood.

The name is strongly associated with bilingual Native American speakers specially recruited, for the first time during World War II, by the U.S. Marines, under the Department of the Navy to serve in their standard communications units in the Pacific. However the United States Army, under the Department of War, on a smaller scale also used Native American Indians to perform the same missions in both World War I and World War II.

The code talkers took part in every assault the U.S. Marines conducted in the Pacific from 1942 to 1945. They served in all Marine divisions, transmitting messages by telephone and radio in their native language—a code that the Japanese never broke.

The code talkers were also deployed in the Korean War; the use of code talkers ended shortly into the Vietnam War. 

The Code Talker's primary job was to talk and transmit information on tactics, troop movements, orders and other vital battlefield information via telegraphs and radios in their native dialect.  A major advantage of the code talker system was its speed. The method of using Morse code often took hours where as, the code talkers handled a message in minutes. 

The Japanese Imperial Army and Navy never cracked the spoken code, and high ranking military officers have stated that the United States would never have won the Battle of Iwo Jima without the secrecy afforded by the code talkers. The code talkers received no recognition until the declassification of the operation in 1968. In 1982, the code talkers were given a Certificate of Recognition by President Ronald Reagan, who also named August 14 "National Code Talkers Day". 

To an ordinary Native American speaker, the entire code talking "conversation" would have been quite incomprehensible because the nouns and verbs were not used in the contextual sequence of conveying meaning within a Native American sentence structure. What the uninitiated would hear are truncated, unrelated and disjointed strings of individual unrelated nouns and verbs. The code talkers memorized all these variations and practiced their rapid use under stressful conditions.

To solve this puzzle you must become a code talker. Just think, code talkers were able to do this within minutes on the Battlefield.




 

 

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Ovfba grgurerq - 4 srrg uvtu ba oenapu arne rqtr bs gerr yvar

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)