Warriors. Navajo Code Talkers

KAWANO, KENJI [PHOTOGRAPHS BY]

Publication: Northland Publishing Company, 1993, Flagstaff

First edition. Oblong 8vo. Pictorial stiff wrappers, xvii [1], 107 pp., frontispiece (Navajo Indians serving with a Marine Signal Unit in Bougainville, December 1943), foreword, preface, introduction, illustrated from photographs, portraits, Navajo Clan names. Foreword by Carl Gorman, Code Talker. Introduction by Benis M. Frank, USMC. "The American offensive in the Pacific during World War II was hampered by the Japanese ability to crack the most secret U.S. Codes. Navajo was virtually unknown outside the reservations, ... and their code proved uncrackable. Seventy-five of the surviving Navajo code talkers are included in this book, their faces testaments to long and valiant lives. As new, unread copy, without dust jacket, as issued.