This one-hour television special is told from the perspectives of six surviving Navajo Code Talkers and their families who returned in 2006 and 2007 to five former World War II battlefields of the bloody and brutal Pacific Theater. Their observations on the secret code created in their language for the U.S. Marine Corps by young Navajo recruits in 1942 - and their lives before and after the war - were recorded with HDTV cameras. The interviews took place on Guam, Saipan, Tinian, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, at USMC Camp Pendleton, California, where they trained and learned the code, and on the lands of the Navajo Nation in the American Southwest.
Dr.
George
A. Colburn, a historian
and and Starbright Media's Director of Operations, was in charge of the overall
production for the Santa Fe Media and
Education Center.
Dr.
George Colburn
Post Office Box 309, Walloon Lake, MI 49796
231/535-2440 or 202/258-4887
gac@starbrightmc.com
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