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click here for the Navajo Code Talker Alphabet [|Connections - NeoOffice Writer.pdf]

Japan's Iwo Jima Strategy 1. The Japanese didn't fight above ground. They fought the battle entirely from beneath the ground. They dug 1,500 rooms into the rock. These were connected with 16 miles of tunnel. 2. Japanese strategy called for "no Japanese survivors." They planned not to survive. 3. Japanese strategy was for each soldier to kill 10 Americans before they themselves are killed.

More information on the Navajo Code Talkers -They took part in every single assault conducted by the marines. -They served in all 6 divisions. -Philip Johnston came up with the idea to use Navajo, but had nothing to do with making the code. -He claimed that "Navajo is an unwritten language of extreme complexity. It's syntax and tonal qualities, not to mention dialects, make it unintelligable to anyone without extensive exposure and training. It has no alphabet or symbols and is only spoken in the Navajo lands of the U.S. southwest." -It is estimated that less then 30 non-Navajos, none of them Japanese, could understand the language at the outbreak of WWII -The words they said in Navajo would be changed to English, then they used the first letters of the translated words to decode the message.