Why Were Navajo Code Talkers Needed?
Why were the Navajo code talkers needed? Times were rough in WWII. Cryptographers were not proficient when it came to code breaking. In order to securely communicate back during WWII, a new method had to be developed. The difficult Navajo language was used as a base for the formation of a complicated code. Codes from both sides were being intercepted, broken, and used against each other. "It originated as approximately 200 terms—growing to over 600 by war's end—and could communicate in 20 seconds what took coding machines of the time 30 minutes to do." Without these Navajo code talkers, we might not have won the war. All of the codes were consistently being broken. We needed something unbreakable.