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NPR Story
11:00 am
Mon November 28, 2011
Navajo Code: Powerful As Any Weapon In WWII?
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During World War II, the U.S. military enlisted Navajo Indians who used their native language to devise a clandestine, unbreakable code. Host Michel Martin speaks to Chester Nez, the last of the original Navajo 'code talkers,' and Judith Schiess Avila, co-author of Nez' autobiography.