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Navajo weapon : the Navajo code talkers Cover Image Book

Navajo weapon : the Navajo code talkers / Sally McClain.

Navajo code talkers (portion title)
McClain, S. (Sally) (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 1887896325
  • Physical Description: vi, 304 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
  • Publisher: Tucson, Ariz. : Rio Nuevo Publishers, [2001]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-296) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Dine Bikeyah (Land of the people), 1926 -- Empire of the rising sun, 1920-1941 -- Search for secrecy - Navajo recruits -- Birth of the code -- Enemy awaits -- Navajo code school - Final phase of Guadalcanal -- Bougainville -- Cape Gloucester, New Britain -- Johnston's betrayal -- Saipan, Tinian, Guam & Peleliu -- Iwo Jima -- fight for Motoyama air fields -- last days -- War's end -- Epilogue -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Subject: United States. Marine Corps > Participation, Indian.
World War, 1939-1945 > Cryptography.
Navajo Indians > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, Indian.
World War, 1939-1945 > Communications.
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Pacific Ocean.
Navajo language > Dictionaries.
Genre: Dictionaries.

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