redo logs in noarchivelog mode

This may be a stupid question, but I was installing a new database for the 
first time, and I started wondering, what is the useful purpose of redo logs if 
a database is in noarchivelog mode? Only if the database crashes and 
transactions were written to the redo logs before they make it into the 
database files?

Thanks,
Carmelinda
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