March 30, 2015 Aim: How did African Americans contribute to the U.S. during WWII?
• Do Now: Make this G.O. on a sheet of paper: What I see/hear My thoughts, questions, reactions,
inferences
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Navajo Code Talkers
• U.S. Army employed 29 young Navajo men to make a secret code based on Navajo language.
– Code remained unbroken through WWII and Cold War
Navajo Code – DOUBLE CODE
• Message received in Navajo
• Translated into English
• Use only the FIRST LETTER of the English word
Saying “NAVY” in Navajo Code
1. "tsah (Needle)
2. wol-la-chee (Ant)
3. ah-keh-di- glini (Victor)
4. tsah-ah-dzoh (Yucca)
Other Examples of Navajo Code
• "besh- lo" (iron fish) meant "submarine"
• "dah-he- tih-hi" (hummingbird) meant "fighter plane."
• Complete dictionary:
• http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq61-4.htm
North American P-51/F-51 Mustang Fighter
Tuskegee Airmen - First African American Military Pilots
Eleanor Roosevelt, 1941
Cast
Lawerence Fishburne –
Hannibal Lee
Cuba Gooding Jr. – Billy Roberts
Allen Payne – Walter Peoples
Malcom – Jamal Warner – Leroy
Cappy