Search Results: Returned 12 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 12
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2018., Primary, Albert Whitman & Company Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: At boarding school, as a young boy, Chester Nez was taught that his native Navajo language was useless. During World War II, he was recruited to use that language to create an unbreakable military code.
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2011., Berkley Caliber Call No: WWII Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Chester Nez, the last surviving member of the original twenty-nine code talkers, discusses his life growing up in the Checkerboard Area of the Navajo reservation, and shares the story of how he helped the United States develop and implement a secret military language based on his native language during World War II that became the only unbroken code in modern warfare.
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2012, c2011., Berkley Caliber Call No: WAR Edition: Berkley Caliber tra Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Summary Note: Chester Nez, the last surviving member of the original twenty-nine code talkers, discusses his life growing up in the Checkerboard Area of the Navajo reservation, and shares the story of how he helped the United States develop and implement a secret military language based on his native language during World War II that became the only unbroken code in modern warfare.
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-- Craig and Fred[2017]., William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: Biography NF GRO Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In 2010 Sergeant Craig Grossi was doing intelligence work for Marine Recon in a remote part of Afghanistan. While on patrol, he spotted a young stray dog 'with a big goofy head and little legs.' Fred not only stole Craig's heart; he won over the Recon fighters, who helped smuggle the dog into Camp Leatherneck. Fred eventually made it to Craig's family in Virginia, where months later, it was Fred's turn to save Craig's life"--OCLC.
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-- Craig and Fred2018., Juvenile, Harper Call No: B GROSSI Edition: Young readers' edition, first paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In 2010 RECON Marine Craig Grossi was in Afghanistan when he came across a stray dog who ended up following Craig throughout his mission. After a great deal of risk, and the help of a lot of people, Craig brought the dog--whom he named Fred--home, and together they learned to cope with and overcome the traumas of war.
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-- Craig and Fred[2017]., Pre-adolescent, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: Biography NF GRO Edition: Young readers' ed.; 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In 2010 Sergeant Craig Grossi was doing intelligence work for Marine Recon in a remote part of Afghanistan. While on patrol, he spotted a young stray dog 'with a big goofy head and little legs.' Fred not only stole Craig's heart; he won over the Recon fighters, who helped smuggle the dog into Camp Leatherneck. Fred eventually made it to Craig's family in Virginia, where months later, it was Fred's turn to save Craig's life"--OCLC.
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2006., Bantam Books Call No: 940.54 25 28 Edition: Bantam movie tie-in Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Click here to view More... Summary Note: Presents an account of the Marines who came together during the battle of Iwo Jima to raise the American flag in a moment that has been immortalized in one of the most famous photographs of World War II.
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[2003], c2001., Juvenile, Delacorte Press Call No: Warfare Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: James Bradley examines the lives of the six young men who raised the American flag over Iwo Jima in February 1945 and were immortalized by a famous photograph--one of whom was Bradley's father.
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[2017]., Primary, Balzer + Bray Call No: 636.1 09519 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When a group of US Marines fighting in the Korean War found a bedraggled little mare, they wondered if she could be trained as a packhorse. They had no idea that the skinny, underfed horse had one of the biggest and bravest hearts they'd ever known.
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2011., Atria Books Call No: Warfare NF DOW Edition: 1st Atria Books hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tells the inspiring story of Sergeant Mike Dowling and his bomb-snifing dog, Rex, as they navigated the always-dangerous Triangle of Death region in Iraq in 2004.
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-- Samuel Holiday, Navajo code talker[2013]., University of Oklahoma Press Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Relates the life story of Samuel Holiday, one of the small group of Navajo men in the Marine Corps in World War II who used their native language as code to transmit secret communications on the battlefield. Based on extensive interviews and relating Mr. Holiday's experiences in his own words.
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Ã1981., Presidio Press/Ballantine Books Call No: WAR Edition: Presidio Press trad Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Eugene Sledge chronicles the experiences he had while fighting in the battles of Peleliu and Okinawa.
