词汇 | code talkers |
词源 | code talkers. (1) A group of Navajo Indians selected by the U.S. Army to send combat messages in their own language, which the Japanese in the World War II Pacific theater could not decipher. (2) A smaller group of Comanche U.S. soldiers that performed the same duty against the Germans for the Al- lies in Europe. |
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