Bibliograph

Type

Label

Navajo weapon, the Navajo code talkers, Sally McClain

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-296) and index

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Navajo weapon

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

48584920

Responsibility statement

Sally McClain

Sub title

the Navajo code talkers

Summary

Based on first-person accounts and Marine Corps documents, and featuring the original code dictionary, Navajo Weapon tells how the code talkers created a unique code within a code, served their country in combat, and saved American lives

Table Of Contents

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

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Navajo code talkers

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