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Navajo weapon : the Navajo code talkers

Navajo code talkers (portion title)

McClain, S. (Sally) (Author).

Record details

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

Content descriptions

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.