Aaseng, Nathan. Navajo Code Talkers. New York: Walker, 1992.In January 2000, Hasbro released a "Navajo Code Talker" as a 12-inch figure in its GI Joe doll line. Originally advertised at http://www.gijoe.com, a search on 1/8/06 did not indicate a continuing availability of this action figure; ebay had two 1999-dated dolls.
Aaseng, Nathan. Navajo Code Talkers. New York: Walker, 1992.
http://members.aol.com/nbrass/biblio.htm [no longer a valid URL -- 1/8/06]: "An overview of the Pacific campaign and the contribution to it by Navajo code talkers."
Bixler,
Margaret T. Winds of Freedom. Darien, CT: Two Bytes Press, 1992.
http://members.aol.com/nbrass/biblio.htm [no longer active]: "More than an account of the World War II codetalkers, this book explores the Navajo culture."
Fonseca, Felicia. "Chevron Donates Land for Code Talkers Museum." Associated Press, 1 Aug. 2009. [http://www.ap.com]
On 31 July 2009, Chevron Mining Inc. donated 208 acres of land to the Navajo Code Talkers Association for a museum and veterans center. "Several hundred Navajos served as Code Talkers during the war.... They took part in every assault the Marines conducted in the Pacific from 1942 to 1945, including the battles of Guadalcanal, Saipan and Iwo Jima."
Huffman, Stephen. "The Navajo Code Talkers: A Cryptologic and Linguistic Perspective." Cryptologia 24, no. 4 (Oct. 2000): 289-320.
The security of the code used by the Navajo code talkers lay "in the profound difference between the phonetic systems of Navajo and Japanese. This difference effectively prevented the Japanese intercept operators from producing the consistent transcriptions of coded messages that were essential to cryptanalytic attack."
Ilnytzky, Ula. "Navajo Code Talkers Break Silence for Veterans Day." Associated Press, 10 Nov. 2009. [http://www.ap.org]
Only about 50 of the 400 Navajo Code Talkers of World War II "are believed to be still alive, most living in the Navajo Nation reservation that spans Arizona, New Mexico and Utah." On 10 November 2009, "13 of the Code Talkers, some using canes, a few in wheelchairs, arrived in New York City to participate for the first time in the nation's largest Veterans Day parade" on 11 November 2009.
McCullagh, Declan. "Clinton Honors Navajo Heroes." Wired News, 18 Apr. 2000. [http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,35730,00.html]
In a ceremony in Shiprock, New Mexico, on 17 April 2000, President Clinton "highlighted the accomplishments of the roughly 420 Navajo tribe members turned cryptographers who served in WWII."
Purdun, Todd S. "Navajo War Effort No Longer Unheralded." New York Times, 11 Oct. 1999. [http://www.nytimes.com]
"[T]the embroidery on the battered red and yellow caps covering their grizzled heads and tanned faces proclaims their proud name: Navajo Code Talkers."
Weadon, Patrick D. Origins of the Navajo Code Talkers: Cryptologic Brilliance, Linguistic Expertise, Dedication To Duty. Ft. George G. Meade, MD: National Security Agency, Center for Cryptologic History, 2002. [http://www.nsa.gov/about/_files/cryptologic_heritage/publications/wwii/navajo_codetalkers.pdf]
This works outlines the persistence of 50s-something Philip Johnston and the success his vision met with the integration of the Navajo Code Talkers into the Marines' battlefield communications system.
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