Navajo Code Talker John Kinsel Sr., one of the last living members of the U.S. Marine Corps who used their native language as an impenetrable code during WWII, recently passed away at the age of 107. The practice of employing Native American languages to transmit undecipherable messages began in WWI, when a group of Choctaw soldiers successfully thwarted German reconnaissance using their native tongue. 🪖 THE GREAT WAR is currently streaming on the PBS Documentaries Prime Video Channel → https:/

Navajo Code Talker and Marine Veteran Thomas Begay received a COVID-19 vaccine shot at a VA medical center on Feb 2. The Code Talkers were a group of 29 Navajo men recruited by the U.S. Marine Corps in WWII to develop unbreakable codes based on their Indigenous languages | NowThis

The Code Talkers used native languages to send military messages before World War II. Choctaw, for example, was successfully used during World War I. But the Marine Corps needed an “unbreakable” code for its island-hopping campaign in the Pacific. Navajo, which was unwritten and known by few outside the tribe, seemed to fit the Corps’ requirements. Twenty-nine Navajos were recruited to develop the code in 1942. They took their language and developed a “Type One Code” that assigned a Navajo word