The Navajo Code Talkers, a group of 29 men, were recruited to create and utilize a code in their Navajo language. They were used in every major battle in the Pacific theatre. Zonnie Gorman tells the importance of remembering their stories. | HISTORY

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:/

One of the last remaining Navajo code talkers of World War II has died. Who were the code talkers? Here's what to know. http://cnn.it/2cDaEZj | CNN

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