Silent Voices of World War II

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When World War II started, New Mexico had a population of 531,815 inhabitants, probably the most least populated of the 48 states. Yet, New Mexico and New Mexicans played a key role in the outcome of the War in the Pacific. The New Mexico National Guard was once the first U.S. military unit to fight the Japanese, holding on for four months on Bataan, and then suffering through years in POW camps. The atomic bomb was once developed at a secret laboratory in Los Alamos, and tested at a web page near Alamogordo. Navajo code talkers helped capture bases from which B-29s bombed Japanese cities. In the end, several thousand Japanese Americans, classified by the FBI as dangerous enemy aliens, were interned in a camp near Santa Fe. These seemingly separate events were related through unique qualities of the arid, spacious land. The authors have now provided a voice for the prior to now silent heroes of these wartime events: Special Engineer Detachment (SED) enlisted women and men at Los Alamos who if truth be told fabricated the atomic bomb, Navajo Marine privates, National Guard enlisted men, and Japanese American internees. Their stories, obtained through personal interviews by Rogers and Bartlit to supplement the historical record, remove darkness from the patriotism, human suffering, and courageous humor in these necessary World War II events.

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