Annotated Bibliography
Primary Sources
Lynch, Captain William. Personal Interview. February 10, 2005
This interview was excellent. I learned things about the Code Talkers that were not in any books, and Mr. Lynch gave his opinion which was contrary to information about the Navajo Code Talkers than what was said in every book.
Navajo Code Talkers: The Epic Story. Tully Entertainment 1995
This video documentary was extremely informative and had footage of the Code Talkers during the War. There were interviews of several original Code Talkers as they told of their experiences.
"The Navajo Code Talkers" San Diego
Union. September 18, 1845
This article
was neat because it had a quote about how the Japanese could not crack the code,
and how all the Navajos were bunched up, sending and receiving messages.
Secondary Sources
Aaseng, Nathan. Navajo Code Talkers. New York: Walker publishing Company. 1992
This book was very helpful, it has amazing pictures of some of the Navajo Code Talkers, which were used in my web page. This book was entirely about the Code Talkers, so it provided great information that was not in other books.
Bruns, Roger. Almost History. New York: The Stonesong Press. 2000
This book was essential to my research. Even though it contains only three pages about the Code Talkers, it was informative because it has the actual letter that Phillip Johnston sent to the Commander of the U.S. Marine Corps. In this letter, Mr. Johnston recommended the use of the Navajo’s to send codes with their complex language.
Code Talkers' Dictionary (Online Image) Available
http://www-ivs.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/bs/lehre/wise0102/progb/
vortraege/steinbrecher/img/dict.jpg, February 23.
This picture was helpful, because it is the picture of a actual page from the confidential dictionary that the Navajo's created and used to memorize their code.
Dog Tags (Online Image) Available
http://www.nptraveler.com/holiday03/images/tags.jpg, February 13, 2005.
It was interesting to find this photo because it has the Navajo Cross and dogs tags worn during World War II by one of the Code Talkers.
Durrett, Deanne. Unsung Heroes of World War II. New York: Facts On File, Inc. 1998
I found this book very interesting. There were things in it that I didn't know and I learned a lot from reading this book. There were some wonderful pictures of the Navajo’s sending codes with a speaking devise and the best picture of all was the graduation picture of the original 29 Navajo Code Talkers.
Jones, Catherine Grace. Navajo Code Talkers: Native American Heroes.
Greensboro: Tudor Publishers. 1997
I really enjoyed reading this book because it had interesting information. I was glad to find a photograph of Philip Johnston, the man who recommended using Navajos as code talkers.
Jones, Catherine Grace. World War II: Americans in the Pacific: The Navajo CodeTalkers.
New Hampshire: Cobblestone Publishing Inc. 1994
This book was not very helpful since it only contained two pages about the Navajo Code Talkers. One thing that was helpful was the chart of some words the Navajo’s used in their secret code.
Navajo Code Talkers (Online Image) Available
http://bingaman.senate.gov/code_talkers/group.jpg, February 13, 2005.
This picture was nice to see because it had eight Navajo Code Talkers in one photo. Most of the Code Talkers in this picture were people that I recognized in other books, sending messages over the radio.
Original 29 Code Talkers (Online Image) Available
http://si.unm.edu/si2002/STE_0021/STE_0002/group.jpg, February 13, 2005.
I was so happy when I found this picture because I was looking for pictures of the first 29 Code Talkers. When I finally found this picture and I was very happy.
Philip Johnston's letter to the Commander. (Online Image) Available
http://www.medalofhonor.com/code2.jpg, February 13, 2005.
When I found this, I was really excited because this is a photocopy of Philip Johnston's letter that was sent to the Commander of the U.S. Marines recommending the use of the Navajos for communication.
Radio (Online Image) Available
http://www.aipc.osmre.gov/images/codetalkersradio.jpg, February 13, 2005.
This picture was really interesting. I had read in many books that the Navajo Code Talkers would talk through radio's with telephone ear pieces and I did not know what they looked like. When I found this, the image of what they used was much clearer.
Schmittroth, Linda. Tribes of Native America: Navajo. Miami: Blackbirch Press. 2002
This book was the least helpful of all. It only had a half of page of information about the Code Talkers. It did contain the dates that the Navajo’s served and a few code words, so I did get at least one or two things from this book.
Sigh, Simon. The Code Book. New York: Random House, Inc. 1999
This was a good reference book, it had many pages about the Navajo Code Talkers, and about two or three tables of Navajo code words and their meanings. The tables were very helpful, and the information in the book was fantastic. I also found a photograph of the original twenty nine Navajo Code Talkers in this book.
U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Paula M. Fitzgerald / 1st Marine Division. Navajo Code Alive in Iraq.
(Online Image) Available http://www.defendamerica.mil/profiles/jun2004/pr060304b.html,
February 13, 2005.
This was interesting because Kayelee Yazzie was the granddaughter of a Navajo Code Talker, and she is now enlisted in the Marines as a Code Talker and currently stationed in Iraq.
Wagner, Sallie R. & Yazz, Beatien & Brody, J. J. Yazz: Navajo Painter. Flagstaff, Arizona: Northland Press. 1983
This is the biography of the life of Yazz, a famous Navajo painter, who was trained as a Code Talker. The book did not have much information that I could use in my web page, but I loved his painting of himself returning home at the end of the war.
