Navajo Code Talkers

Author : Nathan Aaseng
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802721427
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Navajo Code Talkers written by Nathan Aaseng and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-07-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Pacific front during World War II, strange messages were picked up by American and Japanese forces on land and at sea. The messages were totally unintelligible to everyone except a small select group within the Marine Corps: the Navajo code talkers-a group of Navajos communicating in a code based on the Navajo language. This code, the first unbreakable one in U.S. history, was a key reason that the Allies were able to win in the Pacific. Navajo Code Talkers tells the story of the special group, who proved themselves to be among the bravest, most valuable, and most loyal of American soldiers during World War II.

Author : Joseph Bruchac
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0142405965
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Code Talker written by Joseph Bruchac and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-07-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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

Author : Chester Nez
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101552123
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Code Talker written by Chester Nez and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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 : Sally McClain
Publisher : Rio Nuevo Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781887896320
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Navajo Weapon written by Sally McClain and published by Rio Nuevo Pub. This book was released on 2001 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based 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.

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Publisher : Cooper Square Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780873585132
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Warriors written by and published by Cooper Square Pub. This book was released on 1990 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During 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 : Stuart A. Kallen
Publisher : Lerner Publications
ISBN 13 : 1512486442
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Navajo Code Talkers written by Stuart A. Kallen and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2018 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : James Buckley, Jr.
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399542698
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Were the Navajo Code Talkers? written by James Buckley, Jr. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how this heroic group of American Indian men created a secret, unbreakable code and helped the US win major battles during World War II in this new addition to the #1 New York Times bestselling series. 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. In this new book within the #1 New York Times bestelling series, author James Buckley Jr. explains how these brave and intelligent men developed their amazing code, recounts some of their riskiest missions, and discusses how the country treated them before, during, and after the war.

Author : Doris Atkinson Paul
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1434939448
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Navajo Code Talkers written by Doris Atkinson Paul and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Bruchac
Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN 13 : 0807500089
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code written by Joseph Bruchac and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Junior Library Guild Selection April 2018 2018 Cybils Award Finalist, Elementary Non-Fiction BRLA 2018 Southwest Book Award 2019 Southwest Books of the Year: Kid Pick 2020 Grand Canyon Award, Nonfiction Nominee 2020-2021 Arkansas Diamond Primary Book Award Master List STARRED REVIEW! "A perfect, well-rounded historical story that will engage readers of all ages. A perfect, well-rounded historical story that will engage readers of all ages."—Kirkus Reviews starred review Chester Nez was a boy told to give up his Navajo roots. He became a man who used his native language to help America win World War II. As a young Navajo boy, Chester Nez had to leave the reservation and attend boarding school, where he was taught that his native language and culture were useless. But Chester refused to give up his heritage. Years later, during World War II, Chester—and other Navajo men like him—was recruited by the US Marines to use the Navajo language to create an unbreakable military code. Suddenly the language he had been told to forget was needed to fight a war.

Author : William C. Meadows
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806169850
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Code Talkers written by William C. Meadows and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Americans know something about the Navajo code talkers in World War II—but little else about the military service of Native Americans, who have served in our armed forces since the American Revolution, and still serve in larger numbers than any other ethnic group. But, as we learn in this splendid work of historical restitution, code talking originated in World War I among Native soldiers whose extraordinary service resulted, at long last, in U.S. citizenship for all Native Americans. The first full account of these forgotten soldiers in our nation’s military history, The First Code Talkers covers all known Native American code talkers of World War I—members of the Choctaw, Oklahoma Cherokee, Comanche, Osage, and Sioux nations, as well as the Eastern Band of Cherokee and Ho-Chunk, whose veterans have yet to receive congressional recognition. William C. Meadows, the foremost expert on the subject, describes how Native languages, which were essentially unknown outside tribal contexts and thus could be as effective as formal encrypted codes, came to be used for wartime communication. While more than thirty tribal groups were eventually involved in World Wars I and II, this volume focuses on Native Americans in the American Expeditionary Forces during the First World War. Drawing on nearly thirty years of research—in U.S. military and Native American archives, surviving accounts from code talkers and their commanding officers, family records, newspaper accounts, and fieldwork in descendant communities—the author explores the origins, use, and legacy of the code talkers. In the process, he highlights such noted decorated veterans as Otis Leader, Joseph Oklahombi, and Calvin Atchavit and scrutinizes numerous misconceptions and popular myths about code talking and the secrecy surrounding the practice. With appendixes that include a timeline of pertinent events, biographies of known code talkers, and related World War I data, this book is the first comprehensive work ever published on Native American code talkers in the Great War and their critical place in American military history.