Title Navajo code talkers / Nathan Aaseng.

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Location	Call No.	Status
Avon Free Public Library - Teen	TEEN 940.54 AASENG	Check Shelf
Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Teen	YA 940.54 AASENG	Check Shelf
West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Children's Nonfiction	J 940.54 AASENG	Check Shelf
Windsor, Main Library - Children's Department	J940.5426 AA	Check Shelf

Edition	First paperback edition.
Description	ix, 114 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Note	"First published in the United States of America in 1992 by Walker Publishing Company, Inc."--T.p. verso.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-110) and index.
Summary	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.
Contents	Foreword / Roy O. Hawthorne -- War of words -- Needed: an unbreakable code -- Creating the code -- Earning the trust -- Life in the war zone -- Breaking Japanese codes -- Island-hopping -- Battle of Sulfur Island: the code talkers' finest hour -- Back home.
Subject	Cryptography.
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Cryptography -- Juvenile literature.
	Navajo Indians.
	Indians of North America -- Southwest, New.
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Indian.
	Navajo Indians -- Juvenile literature.
Local Subject	Indigenous peoples -- Southwest, New.
Subject	World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Indian -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN	0802776272: $8.95

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