Code Talkers

By: Courtney Devine, Taylor Henrie, Cody Wolfe, Zach

Zoltowski.

The Navajo Nation

• Navajo are Native Americans who like other tribes were mistreated by European’s settling in the New World of North America.

• Colonel Kit Carson’s orders were to round up Navajo Indians who had been raiding in North West New Mexico.

• He found them at Canyon De Chelly, among other places. • It wasn’t just members of raiding parties that Carson

focused on, however. • The government forced thousands of Navajos to

surrender when soldiers destroyed Navajo crops and homeland.

• At least 9,000 Navajos were uprooted from their ancestral homelands in northwestern New Mexico.

The Navajo Nation

• They were forced to walk hundreds of miles to Bosque Redondo, a parched tract of land in eastern New Mexico.

• The government planned to put the Navajo people on a reservation in order to tame them.

• Many died of cold and starvation during the walk.• Old people and small infants suffered most.• Navajo people today still tell the story to their children. • Gotten in to at least consider by demonstration, a man

named Jones and other officers were astonished two weeks

Who were the Navajo code talkers?

• The Navajo lived in log cabins and could survive for days without food.

• The Navajo’s were one of the first to land on the battle of SaiPan in 1944.

War in the pacific.

• The catastrophe occurred on May 21, 1944.• More than 500 men were killed or wounded in this

battle.• Enemy guns were trained as the first wave of

Marines had to crawl under a wave of bullets.• Navajo's were able to prevent disaster at important

moments during the SaiPan battles.• In October of 1942, 27 of the original 29 went to

Guadalcanal, the other 2 stayed at the camp Elliot, to teach the next batch of recruits.

• The code talkers translated many of the Japanese messages

Battle in the pacific

• Enemy guns were trained as the first wave of Marines took cover behind a sand dune.

• The other three waves of Marines had to crawl under wave bullets.

• SaiPan is the largest of the islands of the Marines

• On June 15, 1944, America launched its attack

Battle in Saipan.

• Navajo’s were able to prevent disaster at important moments during the SaiPan battles.

• The biggest Banzai charge took place during the early morning of July 7, even though the Japanese had numbers they still committed suicide.

Banzai Charge

• General Holland Smith one of the most famous Marine of World War II

• The Japanese of the Banzai charge were only armed with rocks or a knife mounted on a pole

• The final death count on of Japanese in the Banzai charge was 4,311 men

Saipan secured

• Some of the remaining on the SaiPan cost jumped off cliffs

• Some of the remaining Japanese killed their own civilians

Wind Talkers

• In December 100 B29’s left to bomb Tokyo

• Japanese known dead: 23,811

• American known dead: 3,225

• The victory on the SaiPan opened the way to the homelands

• The code talkers played fundamental part in causing another Japanese admiral to observe that the war was lost

Code Talkers Honored

• The Navajo code talkers were the secret code of the Marines, they were often heavily guarded

• 1942, the original 29 code talkers developed their “secret weapon”, there were approximately 50,000 members of the Navajo nation

• Approx. 540 men had served as Marines• The Navajo’s acknowledgment went unrecognized due

to national security issues• Six code talkers flawlessly communicated 800 messages • A woman named Ira Hayes, a Native American

paratrooper, one of the six marines who had raised the American flag on Iwo Jima