Filter By Subjects
Cher Ami (Pigeon) Communications, Military Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 Communications Romans, nouvelles, etc Homing pigeons War use Military campaigns Navajo code talkers United States United States. Army. World War, 1914-1918 Communications Fiction World War, 1939-1945 CryptographyFilter By Subjects
Cher Ami (Pigeon) Communications, Military Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 Communications Romans, nouvelles, etc Homing pigeons War use Military campaigns Navajo code talkers United States United States. Army. World War, 1914-1918 Communications Fiction World War, 1939-1945 CryptographyMcClain, S. (Sally)
Summary: Based on first-person accounts and Marine Corps documents, and featuring the original code dictionary, Navajo Weapon tells how the code talkers created a unique code within a code, served their country in combat, and saved American lives.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rio Nuevo Publishers 2001
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Rooney, Kathleen
Summary: "From the green countryside of England and the gray canyons of Wall Street come two unlikely heroes: one a pigeon and the other a soldier. Answering the call to serve in the war to end all wars, neither Cher Ami, the messenger bird, nor Charles Whittlesey, the Army officer, can anticipate how their lives will briefly intersect in a chaotic battle in the forests of France, where their wills will...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2020
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROORunyan, Aimie K.
Summary: "December 1917. As World War I rages in Europe, twenty-four-year-old Ruby Wagner, the jewel in a prominent Philadelphia family, prepares for her upcoming wedding to a society scion. Like her life so far, it's all been carefully arranged. But when her beloved older brother is killed in combat, Ruby follows her heart and answers the Army Signal Corps' call for women operators to help overseas. As...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUNYomtov, Nel
Summary: "In October 1918, World War I had been raging in Europe for more than four years. When Major Charles Whittlesey led the U.S. 77th Division into France's Argonne Forest, his troops were soon surrounded and cut off from escape by German forces. Things became even more dangerous when the division came under friendly fire from U.S. forces. The troops' only hope was to send a carrier pigeon named...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J904.4 YOMSummary: In this episode of the U.S. Army’s The Big Picture television series, viewers learn about the Signal Corps, “The Eyes and Ears of the Army.” Following the men of the Signal Corps to the front lines, this video from the National Archives and Records Administration shows the Signal Corps assisting the Air Force and Navy in their communications, as well as supplying equipment and men for the Army....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
View online at AVOD
Summary: This episode of the U.S. Army’s The Big Picture television series explores how Army radio stations and newspapers keep soldiers informed, how soldiers can further their education overseas by attending foreign universities, and how recruiting highly qualified teachers from the United States gives children of all ages the opportunity of attending schools, just as at home. This video from the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
View online at AVOD
Smith, Michael
Summary: "In 1939, the first of what would be several thousand students, professors, linguists, mathematicians, military officers, chess players of international repute, actresses, and debutantes quietly reported to a Victorian mansion called Bletchely Park, in Buckinghamshire, outside of London. This workplace became "Station X", the Allies' top-secret center for deciphering enemy codes". -- Jacket.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: TV Books 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5486 SMIGoldsmith, Connie
Summary: "Discover how pigeons were trained for use in World Wars I and II. Learn about some of their most daring flights, and find out what other ways pigeons and humans work together"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 355.4 GOLSummary: Navy’s flying TV station; Military Communications
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1956
View online at AVOD
Swanson, Jennifer
Summary: "In the late 1930s, times were desperate. The world found itself at war again, hardly more than twenty years after the First World War had ended - and the stakes were never higher. The leaders of every country involved were left without a choice. They had to try to end the war as fast as possible, using whatever means they could. That meant coming up with secret operations meant to deceive,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2019