World War II Documents

With Germany upset about how WWI ended and Japan upset about a lack-of-access to much-needed natural resources, another war sent the world into chaos between 1939-1945. Stories in this collection are about some of those events.

An American Marine found a briefcase on Saipan containing nothing but information regarding Amelia Earhart. Was it her briefcase? If so, how did it ge...

Trying Philip Johnston's idea - to use the Navajo language as the basis of a WWII code - military officials were stunned at the results of a trial. T...

After successfully proving that their language could be used as a WWII military code, Navajo men began to join the U.S. Marine Corps.  This docum...

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