Winnie Breegle WAVE Code Talker
On Throw-back Thursday and in honor of Women’s History, here is a slightly reworked post from 2012 about Winnie Breegle, a World War II WAVE (Woman Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) and a Navajo code talker, who didn’t happen to be a Navajo.
90-year-old Winnie Breegle spoke at the 2012 Women’s History Month celebration at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Panama City, FL. She had quite a story to tell. Not only was she a WAVE (Woman Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) in World War II but she was also a “code talker,” trained to understand Navajo code as a cryptographer.
In World War II, the code talkers were largely a group of more than 400 Marines who were bilingual Navajo speakers. By using a spoken Navajo code, they were able to dramatically speed up communications while being undecipherable to the Japanese. Most code talkers were Navajo, but as there were too few Navajo speakers, a program was set up to train WAVES to understand the code talkers. Winnie Breegle was one of the WAVES to become a code talker.
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