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Provides a brief overview of the Navajo code talkers during World War II, discussing how their secret language helped the Allies win the war. Examines the Navajo soldiers' selection, training, and heroic actions in battle. Also shows how the code talkers were honored decades later. Features primary sources, photographs, fact boxes, STEM highlights, hero profiles, maps, a timeline, a glossary, and further resources.
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"The untold story of the unique fifty-year friendship between two American icons: John Glenn, the unassailable pioneer of space exploration and Ted Williams, indisputably the greatest hitter in baseball history. It was 1953, the Korean War in full throttle, when two men--already experts in their fields--crossed the fabled 38th Parallel into Communist airspace aboard matching Panther jets. John Glenn was an ambitious operations officer with fifty-nine...