FGCU Academy - Navajo Code Talkers
Event Date:
Event Time:
10:00 am
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11:30 am
Category:
FGCU Academy
Event Location:
The Enrichment Center
Navajo Code Talkers
During World Wars I/II, several Native American languages were used as communication tools among U.S. command officers. In WWII, the U.S. Marines recruited a group of Navajo Indians to create a code whose function was to make communication on the battlefield faster and more efficient. Thus was born the "Navajo Code Talkers." To quote U.S. Marine Major Howard Connor: "Were it not for the Navajos, the Marines would never have taken Iwo Jima." This lecture discusses the critical use of coding as a tool for communication in war time, what made Native American languages so effective, and why the Navajo code was the only war time code that was never cracked.
Speaker: Dr. Edward Maxwell
Tuesday, April 2nd
10:00 am – 11:30 am
$27 per person
Please call FGCU Academy at 239-434-4737 to reserve a class
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