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Originally Posted by Von Due
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Some allied codes were broken but others were not broken. If you are interested in one such code the axis never broke, read up on the Navajo code talkers, one of the more exciting stories about ciphers in war.
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There was also a little known impromptu bit of code-speaking employed by US units in Europe after the initial D-Day landings and by the US troops who came up through Italy, if they had the good fortune to have Japanese-American Nisei troops attached to units; many Nisei could speak Japanese and the Nisei from Hawai'i spoke a sort of pidgin Japanese, mixing Japanese and elements of the Hawai'ian language with bits of other slang derived from other Asian languages used in the Islands. When there was a suspicion the spoken Allied radio transmissions were being intercepted by German forces, the Nisei were put on the radios to relay battle information in their own language as a means of masking the content; the US doubted few, if any, Germans could understand Japanese and they were even less likely to get a grasp of the Pidgin Hawai'ian. The Nisei even went so far as to set up a sort of ad hoc code system where certain Japanese or Pidgin words were actually substitutes for particular types of units, weapons, or situations, etc. ...
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