Navajo Code Talkers

The use of the Navajo language as a code in World War II was a secret which I had to learn from the article in the Nov. 12 Times.

However, this was not the first use of that difficult tongue for such a purpose. Navajos were employed as radiomen by Americans on the Western front in France during the first World War in 1917-1918. As I remember it, they did not use a code but just relayed radio messages in Navajo at the last minute before and during a military operation, feeling confident that the Germans had no one who could understand what was said.

H. STANTON HILL, Professor Emeritus

Pasadena City College