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  Joe Kieyoomia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Joe Kieyoomia (1925 - 1997) was a Navajo soldier in New Mexico's 200th Coast Artillery unit and was captured by the Imperial Japanese Army after the fall of the Philippines in 1942.
Initially tortured because his captors thought he was Japanese-American (and therefore a traitor), Joe Kieyoomia suffered months of beatings before the Japanese accepted his claim to Navajo ancestry.
Kieyoomia was not trained as a code talker and did not know about the code.
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 Code talker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Japanese had an opportunity to attempt this when they captured Joe Kieyoomia in the Philippines in 1942.
Kieyoomia, a Navajo Sergeant in the U.S. Army, was ordered to interpret the radio messages later in the war.
Given the simplicity of the alphabet code involved, it is probable that the code could have been broken easily if Kieyoomia's knowledge of the language had been exploited more effectively by Japanese cryptographers.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Codetalker   (1400 words)

  
 Codetalkers: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
The Japanese had an opportunity to do so when they captured Joe Kieyoomia[?] in the Philippines in 1942.
Kieyoomia, a Navajo Seargeant in the U.S. Army, was ordered to interpret the radio messages.
If instead his captors had brought skilled cryptographers to work with Kieyoomia, it is more than possible that they could have broken the code.
www.encyclopedian.com /co/Codetalkers.html   (504 words)

  
 "the People's Paths home page!" Articles - How Effective Was Navajo Code?
By the close of World War II, Army Sgt. Joe Kieyoomia shared something with the secret words employed by the Navajo Code Talkers: both were like granite against Japanese efforts to break them.
Kieyoomia says his captors at a Nagasaki prison initially tortured him because - judging from his surname - they thought he was Japanese-American.
Kieyoomia says he now thinks the Japanese were baffled after hearing the Navajo Code Talkers speak in their language, which was unwritten at the time.
www.yvwiiusdinvnohii.net /articles/navcode.htm   (583 words)

  
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Joe Kieyoomia (1925 - 1997) was a Navajo Nation soldier in New Mexico 's 200th Coast Artillery (AA) Regiment unit and was captured by the Imperial Japanese Army after the History of the Philippines#The Japanese Occupation in 1942.
Initially torture d because his captors thought he was Japanese-American (and therefore a traitor), Joe Kieyoomia suffered months of beatings before the Japanese accepted his claim to Navajo ancestry.
Kieyoomia was not trained as a code talkers and did not know about the code.
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 Code talkers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Kieyoomia, a Navajo Sergeant in the U.S. Army, was ordered to interpret the radio messages.
They made no sense to him, and when he reported that he could not understand the messages, his captors tortured him.
The 2002 action film, Windtalkers starring Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach and Jason Isaacs, was based on the Navajo code talker operation of WWII, although it is not entirely historically accurate.
www.encyclopedia-online.info /Codetalkers   (658 words)

  
 Code talkers Info - Bored Net - Boredom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Navajo spoken code is not very complex by cryptographic standards of the time, and might have been broken if a native speaker and trained cryptographers worked together effectively.
Given the simplicity of the alphabet code involved, it is probable that the code could have been broken easily if Kieyoomia's knowledge was exploited more effectively by Japanese cryptologists.
An action film, Windtalker (2002) starring Nicolas Cage Adam Beach, and Jason Issacs is based on the Navajo code talkers from WWII.
www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/c/co/code_talkers.html   (469 words)

  
 History Bookshop.com: Pacific War: Navajo code talkers
Joe Lee Kieyoomia, a Navajo American soldier in the US Army, was captured by the Japanese and survived the Bataan Death March to be imprisoned in Manchuria.
Kieyoomia responded that he was not Japanese, but Navajo.
Kieyoomia was able to translate individual words, but told the Japanese it was some kind of code and meant nothing to him.
www.historybookshop.com /articles/commentary/pacific-war-navajo-code-talkers-ht.asp   (4015 words)

  
 Marine Corps News - NAVAJO CODE WENT UNBROKEN
Joe Kieyoomia, a Navajo soldier who served in the Philippines during WWII and was captured by the Japanese, was forced to listen to and attempt to decipher intercepted American transmissions.
Even Kieyoomia was unsuccessful in breaking the code.
Although the Navajo code talkers' contributions in the war were a key to winning the Pacific, they long went unrecognized, as knowledge about the code was kept classified because of its importance to the military.
www.usmc.mil /news98.nsf/6be6e83b482390408525657e0051025f/cc893c87d3d701bf852566d000057f1d?OpenDocument   (610 words)

  
 Marathons
Joe Kieyoomia a Navajo from Albuquerque, New Mexico and Tanya Sheka a Zuni from Zuni, New Mexico were the top male and female finishers.
Kieyoomia toured the course in 2: 54:16 and Sheka posted a 3:43:10 time to claim top honors.
Other Zuni runners who competed in the grueling 26 mile race were Jeromey Chavez who finished second behind Kieyoomia in 3:02:53.
www.peabody.harvard.edu /mcnh_running/marathons.html   (604 words)

  
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 Cryptography-Digest Digest #608
The Japanese tortured a captured Navajo, Sgt. Joe Kieyoomia, because he claimed he couldn't understand the messages at all.
Trouble is, he was telling the truth: he was not a code talker, and could not figure out the messages.
Trouble is, he was > telling the truth: he was not a code talker, and could not figure out > the messages.
www.mail-archive.com /cryptography-digest@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu/msg05804.html   (3365 words)

  
 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Joe Kieyoomia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
This is an extract from The Middle East Open Encyclopedia, made possible through the Wikimedia Foundation.
Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the source article, Joe Kieyoomia; all previous versions may be viewed here.
They link directly to authoring tools for you to start writing a particular article.
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 Navajo Code Talkers, America's Secret Weapon - How the Navajo and Choctaw Languages Scrambled Secret Miliatary ...
- Army Sgt. Joe Kieyoomia, captured by the Japanese, was tortured because he couldn't break the code.
Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary - The official declassified document from the Department of the Navy.
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www.johnshepler.com /articles/codetalkers.html   (1879 words)

  
 Heart of Texas Marine Corps League
There were no written materials that could be captured.
Joe Kieyoomia, a Navajo soldier who was not trained as a Code Talker, was captured and survived the Bataan Death March, only to be tortured into trying to decode intercepted Marine communications.
Left standing naked in the snow, feet frozen to the parade ground, he couldn't confess to what he didn't understand.
www.hotmcl.org /codetalkers.html   (2486 words)

  
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Womens Beginners: Vikki Kieyoomia 157,Erika Phelps 165: Juniors: Derrick Blackwater 120, Mitch Georgina 147, Korie Butler 156.
This was from a combination of the 25% of the total entry fees (75% re-imbursed to the top 4 winners in each category) & donations (many winners generously gave their winnings to be used toward development)....This should buy us a new chain pole hole basket which we'll put on # 19.
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 Objective: Students will evaluate the effectiveness of Navajo Code Talkers on major battles during WWII   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
B) Below the timeline provide a brief summary of the events and outcomes of each battle.
Visit the following web site: http://www.YvwiiUsdinvnohii.net/articles/navcode.htm  and read about the experience of Army Sgt. Joe Kieyoomia.
Explain why he suffered so much and what finally saved his life.
www.cmhep.org /D14Navajo/LessonD14.htm   (319 words)

  
 Mario's Cyberspace Station: All you should know about Navajo Code Talkers
(AP) By the close of World War II, Army Sgt. Joe Kieyoomia shared something with the secret words employed by the Navajo Code Talkers: both were like granite against Japanese efforts to break them.
When the surviving Navajo code talkers meet once a month in this railroad and ranching town bordering the Navajo Nation, they talk about their newly found fame.
Two major motion pictures about the Navajo code talkers are in the works, and last month toymaker Hasbro Inc. introduced Navajo Code Talker GI Joe, the company's first doll to speak a Native American language.
mprofaca.cro.net /navajo.html   (4885 words)

  
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 The Names Project - 200th/515th Coast Artillery - K
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said Lita Kieyoomia of her late husband, Joe Kieyoomia, at the Bataan Memorial dedication in Albuquerque on April 7, 2002.
In an interview many years late he said, “Even if I knew about their code, I wouldn't tell the Japanese.”
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