Title Unsung heroes of World War II : the story of the Navajo code talkers / Deanne Durrett.

Publication Info.	New York, NY : Facts on File, [1998]
	©1998

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Description	vi, 122 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series	Library of American Indian history
	Library of American Indian history.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 119-122)
Summary	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.
Contents	The Navajo -- Birth of the Idea -- The Original 29 -- Special Assignment -- The Navajo School -- The Code Talkers Hit Guadalcanal -- The Navajo Code in Operation -- The Code Talkers' Shining Hour -- Home Again -- The Code Talkers' Contribution -- Selected Further Reading List.
Subject	United States. Marine Corps -- Indian troops.
	Cryptography.
	Navajo code talkers.
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Cryptography -- Juvenile literature.
	Navajo code talkers -- Juvenile literature.
	Navajo Indians.
	Navajo language -- Juvenile literature.
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Indian.
	Indians of North America -- Southwest, New.
	United States. Marine Corps -- Indian troops -- Juvenile literature.
Local Subject	Indigenous peoples -- Southwest, New.
Subject	World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Indian -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN	0816036039
	9780816036035

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