Code Talkers
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With primary source photos, infographics, timelines, charts, and strongly controlled leveled text, this title describes the heroic efforts of the American Indian soldiers known as Code Talkers who served ... -
As a boy, Chester Nez was taught his native language and culture were useless, but he was later called on to use his Navajo language to help create an ... -
He is the only original World War II Navajo code talker still alive–and this is his story . . . His name wasn’t Chestesr Nez. That was the English ... -
The Navajo language helped win World War II, and it lives on in this book, as the Code Talkers remember the war and reflect on the aftermath and the ... -
The United States is at war, and sixteen-year-old Ned Begay wants to join the cause—especially when he hears that Navajos are being specifically recruited by the Marine Corps. So ... -
This biography reader shows students the obstacles and hardships that many of our country’s heroes had to overcome, their struggles, attempts, failures, perseverance, accomplishments and the ultimate success they ... -
Navajo Code Talkers tell the story of creating the code and fighting in WWII in their own words. -
In the first few months of the war in the Pacific during World War II, the Japanese broke all of the Allies’ codes and always knew where the Americans ... -
Describes how the American military in World War II used a group of Navajo Indians to create an indecipherable code based on their native language. -
This book discusses the heroic actions and experiences of the Navajo code talkers and the impact they made during times of war and conflict. -
Several Navajo soldiers were recruited to develop a code based on the Navajo language. The result was a complex code that could not be solved by the enemy. Learn ... -
The Navajo language-notoriously difficult to translate under the best circumstances-proved an ideal top-secret medium for confounding the Japanese in World War II and transmitting combat intelligence quickly and accurately. ... -
It started with a newspaper article and a knock on the door. Sally McClain recounts how her path became unexpectedly entwined with that of the Code Talkers, Navajo veterans ... -
This story portrays the quiet pride of a Navajo code talker as he explains to his grandson how the Navajo language, faith, and ingenuity helped win World War II. -
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 ...
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