Kenji Kawano
Auteur de Warriors: Navajo Code Talkers
A propos de l'auteur
Kenji Kawano spent his formative years living & working among the Navajo people. He was a photographer with Navajo Times. (Bowker Author Biography)
Œuvres de Kenji Kawano
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Kawano, Kenji
- Date de naissance
- 1949
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Japan
- Lieu de naissance
- Japan
- Organisations
- Navajo Code Talkers Association
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 2
- Membres
- 142
- Popularité
- #144,865
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 4
During World War II, as the Japanese were breaking American codes as quickly as they could be devised, a small group of Navajo Indian Marines provided their country with its only totally secure cryptogram. Recruited from the vast reaches of the Navajo Reservation in Arizona and New Mexico, from solitary and traditional lives, the young Navajo men who made up the code talkers were present at some of the Pacific Theatre?s bloodiest battles. They spoke to each other in the Navajo language, relaying vital information between the front lines and headquarters. Their contribution was immeasurable, their bravery unquestionable. The photographer has recorded them as they are today, recalling their youth. Black-and-white photographic portraits of 75 survivors from the Navajo radio operators whose native tongue proved an unbreakable code to the Japanese during World War II. The introduction includes a few photographs from the period.
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
"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.… (plus d'informations)