These men were the first of the Navajo Code Talkers. However, according to a Facebook post by the Southern Navajo Nation News, it was on this day, 78 years ago that they swore the oath of enlistment.
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — John Kinsel Sr., one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers who transmitted messages during World War II based on the tribe's native language, has died. He was 107.
President Ronald Reagan designated August 14 National Navajo Code Talkers Day in honor of the American Indians who joined the Marine Corps in World War II and lent their language to the crypto ...
They turned to the Navajo tribe for recruits. Their mission was to devise a code rooted in the Navajo language that would be impossible for outsiders to decipher. 1/7: In spring 1942, recruitment ...
John Kinsel Sr., one of the last Navajo Code Talkers who served in WWII, dies at 107 “Mr. Kinsel was a Marine who bravely and selflessly fought for all of us in the most terrifying circumstances ...