C-Span - Oral History Interviews: WWII Navajo Code Talkers

For six consecutive Saturdays, American History TV airs interviews with former World War II Navajo Code Talkers who used their native language to secretly communicate operational plans.

They reflect on the reasons they joined the war effort, their Marine Corps service in the Pacific, and on their childhood, including life on the Navajo Nation tribal lands and some as students at Christian missionary schools. The six men returned between 2004 and 2006 to the battlefield islands of Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Saipan, Guam and Tinian. Historian and filmmaker George Colburn interviewed the veterans on the islands and at their homes for his documentary "Navajo Code Talkers: Journey of Remembrance."

For more information about the oral history collection, please visit //www.thenavajocodetalkers.com/

NOTE: No free digital or physical access to these oral history interviews. Interviews were compiled into a documentary available for purchase at https://www.thenavajocodetalkers.com/purchase/