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The Japanese
Who attacked the American naval base at Pearl harbor?
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Philip Johnston
Who had a meeting with Major James E. Jones?
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the marine training
What clashed with the Navajo tradition?
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summer of 1942
When were the code talkers ready to go to the front line?
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the code
What worked exactly as the marines wanted?
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Quickly communicating over far distances.
What is important in a battle?
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Philip Johnston
Who had the idea to use the Navajo language as a code?
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The Navajos
Who were about to become code talkers?
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between 1942 and 1945
When did the code talkers fight lot of the major battles in the Pacific Ocean?
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1945
When did the Japanese surrender?
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The 1940s
When did the U.S. military create wireless radio messages?
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March 1942
When did Philip Johnston have a meeting with military authority?
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Foreign things to Navajos.
What are buses, military uniforms, and big cities?
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code talkers
Who were in the middle of the heaviest fighting?
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13 died
How many code talkers died?
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The Japanese
Who hoped to get information about battle plans to win the war.
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Major General Clayton Vogel and Colonel Weathered Woodward
Who are the people that Philip met up with?
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Seven weeks
How many weeks did the Navajo marines have to do training?
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code talkers
Who were usually among the first waves of troops?
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the Navajo code
What did the military want to keep top secret?
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A simple or unbreakable code.
What did the U.S. army need?
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Navajo code
What code was top secret?
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the Navajo marines
Who had never left their reservation?
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the code talkers
Who reported information about enemy forces during World War 2?
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the code talkers
who received no recognition from World War 2?