Records of the American Expeditionary Forces

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Records of the American Expeditionary Forces
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National Archives

The Choctaw Code Talkers used their own language as basis for a military code that was never broken. This 1919 letter from the Commanding Officer of the 142nd Infantry to the Commanding General of the 36th Division details plans to use the code so that the enemy could not decipher messages.