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Book Review of Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII

Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
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Chester Nez was one of the first 30 Code Talkers. He helped to develop the code based on his native Navajo language. Only code never broken by the Japanese during the war in the Pacific during WWII.

Chester takes you through his life as a child and explains how he came to be chosen by the military for this assignment.

Fascinating book with pictures and the actual code. Chester's and the other Code Talkers story and the code they developed could never be talked about even with family until it was declassified in 1968.