Code Talker (39 page)

Peleliu

See also
Begay, Roy (code talker); Marines (U.S.); Nez, Chester (code talker); Tsinajnnie, Francis (code talker)

Thompson, Nelson (code talker)

Thorpe, Jim

“Thundering Mexican, The,”

Tinian

Tiyan airfield

tkele-cho-gi
(J, “jackass”)

Today
(TV show)

Tohatchi School, New Mexico

Tokyo, Japan

“Tokyo Night Express, The,”

Tokyo Rose

Toll, Roger

Topeka, Kansas

“transport plane”
(atsah)

transport ships

Tsinajnnie, Francis (code talker)

Angaur

Bougainville

Guadalcanal

Guam

Iwo Jima

Peleliu

Tsingtao, China

Tsosie, Harry (code talker)

Tuba City School, Arizona

tuberculosis

Tumon Bay

Turner, R. K. “Terrible” (Rear Admiral)

Two Wells Trading Post in Gallup

Umurbrogol Mountain (“Bloody Nose Ridge”)

unbreakable code.
See
code talkers (Navajo code)

underground systems built by Japan

Underhill, James L. (Colonel)

underworlds

United States of America

Air Force (U.S.)

Army (U.S.)

censorship of mail to/from military by

declaration of war against Japan

diversity of

Great Depression

Japanese vs. American soldiers

nationalizing Japanese assets in

Pearl Harbor attack by Japan

POWs treatment by

red artillery tracers of

September 11 terrorist attacks

South Pacific strategy of

World War I,

wounded, never abandoning

See also
Begay, Roy (code talker); casualties; code talkers (Navajo code); Marines (U.S.); Navy (U.S.); Nez, Chester; Tsinajnnie, Francis (code talker); World War II

“United States of America”
(Ne-he-mah)

University of Kansas

Unsung Heroes of World War II
(Durrett)

USS
Lurline
(ocean liner)

Vandergrift, Alexander (General)

Veterans' Administration Hospital, Albuquerque

Vogel, Clayton B. (Major General)

Wake Island

“walking in beauty,”

Walley, Robert (code talker)

war experiences impact on Chester

warrior tradition of Navajos

“Washing-done” (government employees)

Washington, George (President)

“water”
(tó)

wedding and white man's work

West
(e'e'aah)

Westerner, The
(movie)

Where Two Waters Meet people

white settlers, fighting

Willie, John (code talker)

Window Rock, Arizona

Windtalkers
(film)

witchcraft belief, Navajos

With the Old Breed
(Sledge)

“woman who fights a battle in a circle”
(Biníshiit Baa). See
Nez, Dora (Chester's sister)

World War I,

World War II

Allied forces

atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Axis powers

Bataan Death March

Battle of Empress Augusta Bay

Battle of Guadalcanal

Battle of Midway

Battle of the Coral Sea

Battle of the Java Sea

bombing of Tokyo

combat fatigue

“million-dollar” wounds

Operation Cartwheel

Operation Forager

Operation Stalemate

Operation Watchtower/Operation Shoestring

surrender of Germany

surrender of Japan

veterans and Korean War

See also
casualties; code talkers (Navajo code); Guadalcanal; Japan; Marines; United States of America

“worst battle of South Pacific war,”

Wuhan, China

yá' át' ééh
greeting

Yazzie, Felix (code talker)

Yazzie, Robert

Yazzie, William (William Dean Wilson) (code talker)

Ye'ii
mural painted by Chester

Z, “zinc”
(besh-do-tliz)

Zeros (Japanese)

My dad, D'ent Nez, a very tall man
Courtesy of Chester Nez

My sister, Dora, dressed for a pow wow
Courtesy of Chester Nez

View from Grandmother's hogan, Chichiltah
Courtesy of Michael Nez

Red rocks with sheep corral
on Grandmother's land
Courtesy of Judith Avila

Grandmother's summer-
house
Courtesy of Judith Avila

A hogan with its dome caved in, still standing on Grandmother's land where I grew up
Courtesy of Michael Nez

The original 29. Five are missing.
(Front row): William Yazzie, Frank Pete, me (Chester Nez), Benjamin Cleveland, Allen Dale
June (Second row): John Benally, John Brown, Jr., Roy Begay, Charlie Begay, Nelson
Thompson (Third row): Eugene Crawford, Wilsie Bitsie, Cosey Brown, John Chee, Lloyd
Oliver, Jack Nez, Carl Gorman (Fourth Row): Alfred Leonard, Oscar Ilthma, George
Dennison, James Dixon, Harry Tsosie, Johnny Manuelito, Samuel Begay
An unknown relative of one of the recruits took this photo