A Look Back...
A Warm and Enthusiastic Welcome as Nancy Spoke to the San Juan County
Historical Society on October 11, 2017, in Aztec, New Mexico...
From 1942 until the end of World War II the
Navajo code was never broken by the enemy. Between 350–420 young Navajo U.S. Marines, trained in a unique language, fought from
Guadalcanal through Okinawa, a territory of Japan. Their military commander claimed that they shortened the war by a year. She'll
describe how the code was initiated by the original 29 Navajo U.S. Marine radiomen who had deep knowledge of Navajo culture and
environment, how the number of code talkers expanded to serve in six Marine divisions forcing increased vocabulary as new technology
was introduced on the battlefield, and how the "code-within-a-code" protected its secrecy. With precise accuracy the code was put
to use in the Pacific theater allowing the allied forces to island hop and get closer to target Japan.
KOAT TV's Royale Da Interviews Nancy about Santa Fe's Internment Camp...
Watch the interview with Nancy
on KOAT TV, July 24, 2017.
A Packed House!
Nancy Delivers the Powerful, Seldom-Heard
but Not Forgotten History of Santa Fe's Internment Camp...
Photos: Nancy presenting to a packed house,
"The Santa Fe Internment Camp in the Shadow of
Los Alamos, 1942-1946," in the St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Art Museum on Tuesday, February 28, 2017.
For those interested in the Santa Fe Internment Camp history,
you would find Robert Mott's interview with Nancy, "South of Atomic City, a second secret community during WWII," as it appeared in the
Santa Fe New Mexican, February 27, 2017.
The New Mexican—Posted: Tuesday, July 14, 2015, 11:00 pm | Updated: 9:14 am, Tuesday, July 28, 2015.
In the article,
New Mexico, Japan Bound by Technology and Tragedy,
Nancy is interviewed by Margaret Wright, who gives you the opportunity to read Nancy's comments and gather the history that was built in the
Pacific Theater during WWII. Here are two links where you can read about and also listen to Nancy's position on the atomic bombs:
Read Margaret Wright's article and see the short video: Trinity: 70 Years Later...
Read Nancy's Perspective: Nancy's View—Were
Two Bombs Necessary?