Last of Original Group of Navajo Code Talkers Dies

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Last of Original Group of Navajo Code Talkers Dies

The language he once was punished for speaking in school became Chester Nez's primary weapon in World War II.

Before hundreds of men from the Navajo Nation became Code Talkers, Nez and 28 others were recruited to develop a code based on the then-unwritten Navajo language. Locked in a room for 13 weeks, they came up with an initial glossary of more than 200 terms using Navajo words for red soil, war chief, braided hair and hummingbird, for example, and an alphabet.

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From ABC News:

Last of Original Group of Navajo Code Talkers Dies

The language he once was punished for speaking in school became Chester Nez's primary weapon in World War II.

Before hundreds of men from the Navajo Nation became Code Talkers, Nez and 28 others were recruited to develop a code based on the then-unwritten Navajo language. Locked in a room for 13 weeks, they came up with an initial glossary of more than 200 terms using Navajo words for red soil, war chief, braided hair and hummingbird, for example, and an alphabet.

FULL ARTICLE HERE

I seem to recall they had no word for "torpedo" (?) and made something up like "metal fish". 

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I seem to recall they had no word for "torpedo" (?) and made something up like "metal fish".

There were a lot of words that they had to find equivalents for. For torpedo, it was "Lo-Be-Ca", or "fish shell".