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,

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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

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