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Code talker /

by Nez, Chester.
Additional authors: Avila, Judith Schiess.
Edition statement:1st ed. Published by : Berkley Caliber, (New York :) Physical details: viii, 310 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. ISBN:9780425244234; 0425244237.
Subject(s): Nez, Chester. | United States. -- Marine Corps -- Biography. | Navajo code talkers -- Biography. | World War, 1939-1945 | World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American. | World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Indian. | Navajo Indians -- Biography. | Cryptography. | Marines. | Military participation -- Indian. | Personal narratives -- American | Autobiographies
Year: 2011
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-296) and index.

Although more than 400 Navajos served in the military during World War II as top-secret code talkers, even those fighting shoulder to shoulder with them were not told of their covert function. And, after the war, the Navajos were forbidden to speak of their service until 1968, when the code was finally declassified. Of the original twenty- nine Navajo code talkers, only two are still alive. Chester Nez is one of them. In this memoir, the eighty-nine-year-old Nez chronicles both his war years and his life growing up on the Checkerboard Area of the Navajo Reservation -- the hard life that gave him the strength, both physical and mental, to become a Marine. His story puts a living face on the legendary men who developed what is still the only unbroken code in modern warfare.

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