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Major Mellitz:
[Showing a series of photographs]
Take a look. It's a Navajo... or was. Tortured to death by Japanese intelligence trying to bust our code. Fortunately, couldn't help them even if he wanted to. Joe Enders:
Sir? Major Mellitz:
Man's a Navajo, not a Code Talker. Code's based on their language, but it is still a code. Tojo'd like nothing more than to catch a live one
[Showing a series of photographs]
Take a look. It's a Navajo... or was. Tortured to death by Japanese intelligence trying to bust our code. Fortunately, couldn't help them even if he wanted to. Joe Enders:
Sir? Major Mellitz:
Man's a Navajo, not a Code Talker. Code's based on their language, but it is still a code. Tojo'd like nothing more than to catch a live one
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Take a look
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It's a Navajo Or it was
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Tortured to death by Japanese intelligence trying to bust our code
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Fortunately he couldn't help them even if he wanted to
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Sir Man's a Navajo not a codetalker
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Code's based on their language but it is still a code
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Tojo would like nothing more than to catch a live one
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Movie Summary
Two U.S. Marines in World War II are assigned to protect Navajo Marines, who use their native language as an unbreakable radio cypher.

