亚利桑那州窗石市老约翰·金塞尔是仅存的纳瓦霍语码使用者之一，他在二战期间根据部落的母语传递信息，现已去世。他已经107岁了。
窗岩的纳瓦霍部落官员周六宣布了金塞尔的死讯。
部落主席Buu Nygren已经下令在10月27日日落之前，保留地的所有旗帜都降半旗，以纪念Kinsel。
尼格伦周日在一份声明中说:“金塞尔先生是一名海军陆战队员，他在最可怕的情况下勇敢地、无私地为我们所有人战斗，作为一名纳瓦霍语码员，他肩负着最大的责任。”
随着金塞尔的去世，只有两位最初的纳瓦霍语码使用者仍然健在:前纳瓦霍语主席彼得·麦克唐纳和托马斯·h·贝加伊。
战争期间，数百名纳瓦霍人被海军陆战队招募为密码员，用他们当时未成文的母语传递信息。
他们在第二次世界大战期间挫败了日本军事密码学家，并参与了1942年至1945年海军陆战队在太平洋的所有袭击，包括瓜达尔卡纳尔岛、塔拉瓦岛、贝里琉岛和硫磺岛。
密语者准确无误地发送了数千条关于日本军队动向、战场战术和其他对战争最终结果至关重要的通信信息。
金塞尔出生在亚利桑那州的Cove，住在Lukachukai的纳瓦霍社区。
他于1942年加入海军陆战队，成为一名精英密码员，在硫磺岛战役期间在海军陆战队第九团和第三师服役。
罗纳德·里根总统在1982年设立了纳瓦霍语码员日，8月14日的节日纪念所有与战争有关的部落。
这一天是亚利桑那州的节日，也是占据亚利桑那州东北部、新墨西哥州西北部和犹他州东南部的大片保留地的纳瓦霍族的节日。
One of the last Navajo Code Talkers from World War II dies at 107
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. --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.
Navajo Nation officials in Window Rock announced Kinsel’s death on Saturday.
Tribal President Buu Nygren has ordered all flags on the reservation to be flown at half-staff until Oct. 27 at sunset to honor Kinsel.
“Mr. Kinsel was a Marine who bravely and selflessly fought for all of us in the most terrifying circumstances with the greatest responsibility as a Navajo Code Talker,” Nygren said in a statement Sunday.
With Kinsel’s death, only two original Navajo Code Talkers are still alive: Former Navajo Chairman Peter MacDonald and Thomas H. Begay.
Hundreds of Navajos were recruited by the Marines to serve as Code Talkers during the war, transmitting messages based on their then-unwritten native language.
They confounded Japanese military cryptologists during World War II and participated in all assaults the Marines led in the Pacific from 1942 to 1945, including at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Peleliu and Iwo Jima.
The Code Talkers sent thousands of messages without error on Japanese troop movements, battlefield tactics and other communications crucial to the war’s ultimate outcome.
Kinsel was born in Cove, Arizona, and lived in the Navajo community of Lukachukai.
He enlisted in the Marines in 1942 and became an elite Code Talker, serving with the 9th Marine Regiment and the 3rd Marine Division during the Battle of Iwo Jima.
President Ronald Reagan established Navajo Code Talkers Day in 1982 and the Aug. 14 holiday honors all the tribes associated with the war effort.
The day is an Arizona state holiday and Navajo Nation holiday on the vast reservation that occupies portions of northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico and southeastern Utah.
