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Navajo weapon / by S. McClain.

Title
Navajo weapon / by S. McClain.
Author
McClain, S. (Sally)
Publication
Boulder, Colo. : Books Beyond Borders, Inc., c1994.

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Description
vi, 304 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Summary
Details the little known stories of Navajo code talkers of World War II. It tells of the unlikely union of Navajo people and the United States Marine Corps during the war in the South Pacific.
Subject
  • United States. Marine Corps > Indians
  • 1900-1999
  • Navajo code talkers
  • 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/Form
  • Dictionary
  • dictionaries.
  • Dictionaries
  • History
  • Dictionnaires.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-296) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
1883862078 (hbk.)
LCCN
^^^94072306^
OCLC
31274653
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library