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Navajo Code Talker: Looking through the Eyes of WWII Marine Chester Nez

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Adults, Author, Community Public, Local Author

Age Group:

All
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Our country’s Indigenous People were key to our victory in WWII. In the Pacific Arena, the Japanese managed to crack every communication code used by the United States. Marines turned to their Navajo recruits to develop and implement a secret military language. These Navajo marines created the only unbroken spoken code in modern warfare, and helped to assure triumph for the United States.

Bestselling author Judith Schiess Avila gives us the insider’s account of Navajo code talker Chester Nez. Chester was one of the original code talkers—the men who designed the Navajo code and proved it in battle. Together in the book, Chester and Judith tell the story of these indispensable marines in Chester’s memoir Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir by One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII. The book is available at most bookstores and on Amazon.

Visit her website at judithavila.com/code-talker.

Registration required; registration opens on October 1.  Program will be presented virtually via Zoom; lick here to join the Zoom presentation at 6 p.m.  Presentation is approximately 60 minutes in duration including a brief question and answer session.

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Author with Chester Nez