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Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Explores from the Native point of view the complex story of the role that the Native American code talkers and the Navajo language played in secret communications during World War II. No cryptography system proved as effective during the war as did the use of Navajo code talkers using their tribal language to transmit military communiques. Countless American lives were saved because of the service of these brave young Native American Marines.
Author
Publisher
Northland Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[1990]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 107 pages : illustrations ; 23 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
During World War II, as the Japanese were breaking American codes as quickly as they could be devised, a small group of Navajo Indian Marines provided their country with its only totally secure cryptogram. Recruited from the vast reaches of the Navajo Reservation in Arizona and New Mexico, from solitary and traditional lives, the young Navajo men who made up the code talkers were present at some of the Pacific Theatre?s bloodiest battles. They spoke...
6) Windtalkers
Publisher
Newmarket Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"By the time the United States joined the Second World War in 1941, the fight against Nazi and Axis powers had already been under way for two years. In order to win the war and protect its soldiers, the US Marines recruited twenty-nine Navajo men to create a secret code that could be used to send military messages quickly and safely across battlefields. Author James Buckley Jr. explains how these brave and intelligent men developed their amazing code,...
Author
Publisher
Creative Editions
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
"Amidst a complicated history of mistreatment by and distrust of the American government, the Navajo people--especially bilingual code talkers--helped the Allies win World War II"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the South Pacific during World War II, a group of Navajo Marines sent secret messages for the Allies using a code based on the Navajo language. Learn more about these heroes, whose unbreakable code helped win the war.
Author
Publisher
Facts on File
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
vi, 122 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the role of a select group of Navajo Marines who developed a code based on their own native language that provided a means for secure communications among American forces in the Pacific during World War II.
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