Episode 248
Episode 248: The Code Talkers, Part II: Crazy Navajo
AZ: The History of Arizona podcast · AZ: The History of Arizona
March 2, 202630m 19s
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Show Notes
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.