Episode 248: The Code Talkers, Part II: Crazy Navajo

Episode 248: The Code Talkers, Part II: Crazy Navajo

30:19 Mar 2, 2026
About this episode
Chester Nez In 1942, 29 men were locked in a room and told to come up with a code the enemy couldn’t break. The result would be an unbeatable encryption that sounded to outside observers like a cross between gibberish and random noises. But now came the tricky part - teaching the code to hundreds of men who needed to commit it to memory.
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