30K views · 266 reactions | During WWI, the Americans had a wiretapping problem. Enter: the Code Talkers. Learn more when "The Great War: Part Three" airs TOMORROW at 9/8c on PBS — be sure to check your local listings! | American Experience | PBS | Facebook

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:/