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.
With Kinsel's death, only two original Navajo Code Talkers are still alive: Former Navajo Chairman Peter MacDonald and Thomas H. Begay.
They confounded Japanese military cryptologists, who were breaking the U.S. military's codes routinely during World War II.
"It was taken for granted they could interpret whatever we were transmitting," Richard Bonham, a World War II radio operator, told "60 Minutes" in 2002.
President Ronald Reagan established Navajo Code Talkers Day in 1982 and the Aug. 14 holiday honors all the tribes associated with the war effort.

John Kinsel Sr., one of the last Navajo Code Talkers from World War II, dies at 107