John Kinsel Sr., Navajo Code Talker for the Marines During World War II, Dies at 107
The code, which used his native language, was a critical form of communication during the war.
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One night in 1943, a group of U.S. Marines fighting Japanese forces on Bougainville Island struggled for hours with using a machine to decode a message from their regiment headquarters. Eventually, they turned to a Marine who had been trained on a secret code that used the Navajo language, and asked him to get the message sent that way instead.
He reached out to his Navajo counterpart at headqauarters, John Kinsel Sr. It took less
