Warriors: Navajo Code Talkers
by: Kenji Kawano
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Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5403
EAN: 9780873585132
ISBN: 0873585135
Label: Northland
Manufacturer: Northland
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: July 25, 2002
Publisher: Northland
Sales Rank: 277862
Studio: Northland
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The American offensive in the Pacific during World War II [was] hampered by the Japanese ability to crack the most secret U.S. Codes. Navajo was virtually unknown outside the reservations, ... and [their] code proved uncrackable. Kenji Kawano's striking photographs capture the quiet dignity of the surviving veterans as they recall their actions --Los Angeles Times
Amazon.com Review:
'When I was going to boarding school, the U.S. government told us not to speak Navajo,' recalls Teddy Draper Sr. of Chinle, Arizona, 'but during the war, they wanted us to speak it!' Speaking their native language--which the Japanese could not decode--Navajo soldiers were instrumental in U.S. marine victories in the Pacific during World War II, relaying vital information between the front lines and headquarters. Kenji Kawano, a native Japanese photographer whose black and white images of surviving 'code talkers' are unusual for their sensitivity, notes with some irony that these soldiers were his father's enemies at one time.
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- Photographic testament to native American veterans of WW2 I've never had much interest in the Second World War - tv documentaries about it leave me cold. However, ... Read More
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