Once Upon a Time in War is a photographic retrospect of the Great War, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam and the War on Terror.

I'm Lux, a twenty-something uni student studying modern warfare to become a museum archivist. I spend too much time playing World at War, and I have a dog named Loki von Bismarck.

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By 1918, the German forces had already broken the radio codes of the Allied Forces’ and successfully tapped into their phone lines and captured messenger runners in order to anticipate future movements. Desperate to gain an edge over their enemy, members of the Choctaw nation (who were not yet considered citizens of the United States) were asked by the government to use their language as the code. This act alone set a precedent for code talking around the world as an effective military weapon and established the Choctaw language as America’s original code talkers. In fact, the men set the foundation for all other battlefield code talkers, including the Navajo who were so instrumental in the Pacific during the Second World War. Despite the short time the Choctaw code was in use, it remained unbroken.

By 1918, the German forces had already broken the radio codes of the Allied Forces’ and successfully tapped into their phone lines and captured messenger runners in order to anticipate future movements. Desperate to gain an edge over their enemy, members of the Choctaw nation (who were not yet considered citizens of the United States) were asked by the government to use their language as the code. This act alone set a precedent for code talking around the world as an effective military weapon and established the Choctaw language as America’s original code talkers. In fact, the men set the foundation for all other battlefield code talkers, including the Navajo who were so instrumental in the Pacific during the Second World War.

Despite the short time the Choctaw code was in use, it remained unbroken.

Tags: World War IWorld War I: Choctaw Code TalkersWorld War I: US ArmyWorld War I: Western Front

January 26, 2012, 3:00pm

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