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Saturday, June 13, 2015

World War One: The original code talkers

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

When US military codes kept being broken by the Germans in WW1 a Native American tribe came to the rescue. They just spoke their own language - which baffled the enemy - and paved the way for other Native American "code talkers" in WW2. The Choctaw Squad

(L-R) Joseph Oklahombi, Tobias Frazier and Otis Leader


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