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Author: Sally McClain
Publisher: Rio Nuevo Pub
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781887896320
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on first-person accounts and Marine Corps documents, and featuring the original code dictionary, Navajo Weapon tells how the code talkers created a unique code within a code, served their country in combat, and saved American lives.
Author: Nathan Aaseng
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2002-03-01
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 0802776272
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes how the American military in World War II used a group of Navajo Indians to create an indecipherable code based on their native language.
Author: Sally McClain
Publisher: Books Beyond Borders Incorporated
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDetails the little known stories of Navajo code talkers of World War II. It tells of the unlikely union of Navajo people and the United States Marine Corps during the war in the South Pacific.
Author: Ann Stalcup
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9781632931764
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A story based on the important role the Navajo Code Talkers played in the Pacific during WWII."--Provided by publisher.
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2006-07-06
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1101664800
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Readers who choose the book for the attraction of Navajo code talking and the heat of battle will come away with more than they ever expected to find."—Booklist, starred review Throughout World War II, in the conflict fought against Japan, Navajo code talkers were a crucial part of the U.S. effort, sending messages back and forth in an unbreakable code that used their native language. They braved some of the heaviest fighting of the war, and with their code, they saved countless American lives. Yet their story remained classified for more than twenty years. But now Joseph Bruchac brings their stories to life for young adults through the riveting fictional tale of Ned Begay, a sixteen-year-old Navajo boy who becomes a code talker. His grueling journey is eye-opening and inspiring. This deeply affecting novel honors all of those young men, like Ned, who dared to serve, and it honors the culture and language of the Navajo Indians. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults "Nonsensational and accurate, Bruchac's tale is quietly inspiring..."—School Library Journal
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Publisher: Cooper Square Pub
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9780873585132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring World War II, as the Japanese were breaking American codes as quickly as they could be devised, a small group of Navajo Marines provided their country with its only totally secure cryptography. The photographer has recorded them as they are today, recalling their youth.
Author: M. M. Eboch
Publisher: ABDO
Published: 2015-08-01
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 1629697796
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title examines the Native American servicemen known as the code talkers, focusing on their role in coded communication during World War II including developing the codes, their training, and their work in war zones. Compelling narrative text and well-chosen historical photographs and primary sources make this book perfect for report writing. Features include a glossary, a selected bibliography, websites, source notes, and an index, plus a timeline and essential facts. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Author: Chester Nez
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2011-09-06
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 1101552123
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII. His name wasn’t Chester Nez. That was the English name he was assigned in kindergarten. And in boarding school at Fort Defiance, he was punished for speaking his native language, as the teachers sought to rid him of his culture and traditions. But discrimination didn’t stop Chester from answering the call to defend his country after Pearl Harbor, for the Navajo have always been warriors, and his upbringing on a New Mexico reservation gave him the strength—both physical and mental—to excel as a marine. During World War II, the Japanese had managed to crack every code the United States used. But when the Marines turned to its Navajo recruits to develop and implement a secret military language, they created the only unbroken code in modern warfare—and helped assure victory for the United States over Japan in the South Pacific. INCLUDES THE ACTUAL NAVAJO CODE AND RARE PICTURES
Author: Deanne Durrett
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2022-01-21
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 149620817X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn February 23, 1945, U.S. Marines claimed victory in the battle of Iwo Jima, one of the most important battles in the Pacific islands during World War II. Instrumental to this defeat of Japanese forces was a group of specialized Marines involved in a secret program. Throughout the war, Japanese intelligence agencies were able to intercept and break nearly every battlefield code the United States created. The Navajo Code Talkers, however, devised a complex code based on their native language and perfected it so that messages could be coded, transmitted, and decoded in minutes. The Navajo Code was the only battlefield code that Japan never deciphered. Unsung Heroes of World War II details the history of the men who created this secret code and used it on the battlefield to help the United States win World War II in the Pacific.
Author: Samuel Holiday
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2013-08-13
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 080615103X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSamuel 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. Based on extensive interviews with Robert S. McPherson, Under the Eagle is Holiday’s vivid account of his own story. 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. Under the Eagle carries the reader from Holiday’s childhood years in rural Monument Valley, Utah, into the world of the United States’s Pacific campaign against Japan—to such places as Kwajalein, Saipan, Tinian, and Iwo Jima. Central to Holiday’s story is his Navajo worldview, which shapes how he views his upbringing in Utah, his time at an Indian boarding school, and his experiences during World War II. Holiday’s story, coupled with historical and cultural commentary by McPherson, shows how traditional Navajo practices gave strength and healing to soldiers facing danger and hardship and to veterans during their difficult readjustment to life after the war. The Navajo code talkers have become famous in recent years through books and movies that have dramatized their remarkable story. Their wartime achievements are also a source of national pride for the Navajos. And yet, as McPherson explains, Holiday’s own experience was “as much mental and spiritual as it was physical.” This decorated marine served “under the eagle” not only as a soldier but also as a Navajo man deeply aware of his cultural obligations.
