Navajo Code Talkers oral histories 1971

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Navajo Code Talkers oral histories 1971

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This collection consists of eight oral histories of the Marine Corps Navajo Code Talkers of World War II. The histories are bound in a volume, and include eighteen photographs of code talkers working during the war.

0.25 linear foot

eng,

J. Willard Marriott Library. University of Utah Manuscripts Division

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United States. Marine Corps

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The U.S. Marine Corps was established on November 10, 1775. From the description of Papers, 1933-1945. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 754107146 The history of the Marine Corps Navajo Code Talkers dates from 1942-1945. In 1942, a white man by the name of Phillip Johnston, who had lived on a Navajo reservation for many years of his life, conceived an idea that he thought might help the war. He believed that the Navajo language, a verbal, rarely-written language, coul...