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Item Nr: B 103009 Title: UNSUNG HEROES OF WORLD WAR II: NAVAJO CODE TALKERS
Grade Lvl: JS Author: DURRETT, DEANNE
Length: 122 Prod/Pub: FACTS ON FILE
Copyright: 1998 Series:
Book Type: N Biographee:
Copies: 2 Loan Period: 42 days
 
  Subtitle: The Story of the Navajo Code Talkers. 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. RC 8.6. Lexile 1080. Primary sources.

  Subjects:
  317 - CRYPTOGRAPHY
  589 - HEROES/HEROINES
  1680 - LEXILE 1000-1099
  621 - NATIVE AMERICANS
  1574 - NATIVE AMERICANS--SOUTHWEST
  1840 - PRIMARY SOURCES
  1014 - SOLDIERS
  1128 - U.S. MARINE CORPS.
  1187 - WORLD WAR II, 1939-1945