Samuel Holiday was one of a small group of Navajo men enlisted by the Marine Corps during World War II to use their native language to transmit secret communications on the battlefield.
Under the Eagle carries the reader from H.
It is the only book-length oral history of a Navajo Code Talker in which the narrator relates his experiences in his own voice and words.
McPherson, Under the Eagle is Holiday\'s vivid account of his own story.
Based on extensive interviews with Robert S.
Samuel Holiday was one of a small group of Navajo men enlisted by the Marine Corps during World War II to use their native language to transmit secret communications on the battlefield