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Code Talker : the First and Only Memoir by one of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of Wwii

Nez, Chester. Book - 2011 940.548 Ne 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4 out of 5

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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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Codetalkers submitted by m steve on June 14, 2022, 7:51am A very educational memoir. The narrative about how the program began and operated was fascinating.I did not know how closely to the front lines these men fought!