Warriors: Navajo Code Talkers
"When I was going to boarding school, the U.S. government told us not to  speak Navajo," recalls Teddy Draper Sr. of Chinle, Arizona, "but during the war, theywantedus to speak it!" Speaking their native language--which the Japanese  could not decode--Navajo soldiers were instrumental in U.S. marine victories in the  Pacific during World War II, relaying vital information between the front lines and  headquarters. Kenji Kawano, a native Japanese photographer whose black and white  images of surviving "code talkers" are unusual for their sensitivity, notes with some  irony that these soldiers were his father's enemies at one time.