on dot com. three thirty am in moscow good to have you with us was if we give you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news here on our team media outlets across the world start publishing a new batch of secret documents obtained by internet whistleblower whistle leak wiki leaks for the first time a russian publication also got the information that details u.s. diplomats conversations with the state department. the detention of an r t crew in the us covering a peaceful demonstration raises questions about freedom of speech and mainstream media coverage spent thirty two hours in custody. switzerland backs a proposal to deport foreigners found guilty of committing serious crimes critics claim the move as an attack on immigrants and

a display of active discrimination. and russia's democracy should not stagnate the russian president calling on the opposition in his video blog to act so that those in power stay awake at the wheel this according to the president would strengthen the political processes in russia. as the tiny largely forgotten pacific island of tarawa it's the resting place for hundreds of u.s. marines whose wartime sacrifice is slipping from people's memories. the large concentration of litter on the beach poses an additional health hazard when the refuse to swept out to sea during the storm. despite these dangers leon saw no empty aluminum cans or plastic bottles he found to be major recycling plant near by were aluminum cans are crushed both cans on.

leon paid a visit to the owner and manager of the plane derek andrew warthe i wrote repeatedly to the washington usual suspects the president and the white house the secretary of defense the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff members of congress so i'm here to began and hopefully an action program with funding from my government but we've got. to be starting with the help of the new. basti or will. call their. way here it says in a nutshell what i'm thinking is we should expand your operation clean up the beach on red beach one would be my primary objectives because my salty language but you can understand my anger and having seen this desecration of how the ground war on red beach. leon had developed an action plan for be sure that included two

phases the first would be to set up refuse containers and collection centers throughout the beaches and employ local citizens the second phase would be to establish state of the art incineration systems that would recycle trash as well as provide electricity for the island. leon's action plan could be used for any island for some diminishing land sources but the local fiji television station taped an interview of your own story and his current mission to taro. years. there are two cleone out in his boat to revisit the scene of the battle. i used to have a nightmare. i granted for years afterwards. i had somehow. fallen into the water and i had sunk down and there was a kid sitting on i am on

a tank. he was saying he he waved at me he and i are about twenty maybe thirty feet under water and i was looking at him wondering what the fuck are you doing here and he was sitting on top of the sherman tank and the corals all around this bright yellow red blue car all was all around us and it was a kid very happily sitting on top of the chair ever take and that's a dream that i had for years. i had told my wife. if i start threatening ron but just leave the bread because i get. back kind of crazy i'm not aware of it but anyway. she she knew when i made those morning sounds i couldn't talk because of i began to speak i would drown i would swallow water. later that day visited the residence of john and molly brown. so she showed a movie about the battle for tara prior to

a tour of the sites. just tired of her couch. that's for three. hours of. play. play. over the years the browns have collected munitions in their back yard a number of shells are still alive. that's right good for the american just for these are. some of the driving thirty eight from american history often is still a long way around. yet you said you don't kick it

a place for an hour when i'm right those are dangerous shells and weapons of all shapes and sizes a majority of them american constantly turn up on base feel although these of cause deaths and injuries to the local population over the years there is no exact figure provided by the kid about government. mike corder the local australian naval commander on the island still has the difficult task of dealing with world war two war yes. the issue here is that no one escapes turning out how they got rid of all we want it's it can be like kind of it is alright to stuff it just keeps turning up the whatever and it's amazing what some people you know the senate foreign affairs bomber discovered was that one sort of a chicken curry you know that so i had it standing upright. by both on the end of the bomb and nothing to detonate a bomb and are using it as just one corner of the to invent. the wheel you know leon was introduced to two australian ex-pats involved in exploring the history of

the battle of tara stan ghosh to his professional diver and munitions expert and peter scarlett has lived on the island for over fifteen years stan has done hundreds of dives off base you know and is employed by history flights on their two year program to survey the island for lost graves there's there's a plane just sticking up for the less for the others of the waste that's obliquely told write it as that what's in the water. is a picture of it that's the facia this the whole see. the waves intersections there before. the debris from the battle still covers the island and every storm on earth new ordinance stand showed leon a fifty caliber machine gun sitting in the water a few yards from the beach front home. i said that's a fifty fifty caliber machine. still the coke again helping fight on the

stand keeps a storage container full of the weapons and munitions he's collected. this is going for sixty no more the church you see here with. us for a mortar is a more mortar and edible a good. still what the fears and the flawed system the motor. a lot of us are still on that this is full of the good. stuff vibes of the radio portable radio that was run out of a boy named truck already baked this is the fault of the job but on the supposed office from immigrants that i dug up and also. had enough of it making you can see the nickel couple. of books of emanation for the japanese told nautical it's a little mind gun it's a thirty seven no room still the whole explosion of rooms a lot of room. up on your head like this right carefully.

by the end of day to the ground commander colonel chute who had been wounded by shrapnel during his landing the day before rallied his troops to capture the airport runway this effectively cut the enemy defenses into. day three began with an easier landing of additional marines at the western shore as the american forces began to outflank the japanese defenders that morning a chance event was taking place in the skies nearby. a flight of hellcat fighter planes on routine patrol from the aircraft carrier lexington accidentally intercepted a formation of twenty japanese eeks fighters based from the nearby mortar lines the japanese were on a mission to bomb and strafe the tower landing force. by ten o five that morning the americans had shot down seventeen of the twenty bombers and

force the remaining three back to their base the marines on base you see for potentially devastating casualties. meanwhile supported by reinforcements and artillery fire from nearby islands the marines used all means necessary to systematically take out the japanese defenders they slowly advance toward the narrow eastern tip of the arctic. leon paid a visit to mother superior margaret sullivan of our lady of the sacred heart mission she showed in the declaration the japanese government is at it just hours after they took over the island now did you have any and playing on a warning that japan was going to occupy the xining all of a sudden they simply showed up as a right to die is that really what i want to finish up every tenth of december to those that will not and where they land and face. as his outreach to local officials continued leon and ted met with the minister of interior. her more

than three years i've been trying to get our government to do something about the desecration that has happened to the beach as well as so many americans died in defense of our country so i've. made was a. fight with just a little. bit of hope for the little muscle. the show that leon had taped for fiji television was broadcast all the islanders. all. the different schools i made a number of trips in the big stuff i saw killings i never saw my life and everyone but i really never stopped. and never did. all the time i was coming in to thinking surely. kelly. but because i. still.

i was so damn right i think the best thing for me to do kill as many of the end in sight like the one i did some helpless four sons of bitches i simply because i chat which might. by one twelve pm on november twenty third the island was declared secured over five thousand five hundred men lay dead on the sands one thousand one hundred thirteen were american marines and two thousand two hundred ninety were wounded only one japanese officer and two enlisted men survived along with fourteen korean laborers . the entire island was a fast twisted wasteland of death and destruction. american and japanese bodies covering the island were a mute testimony to the ferocity of the bout. one marine commented that it was the

closest thing to dantes inferno universe and. it was a hellish wasteland of destruction. literally covered with thousands of bodies and ordnance. now came the grim task of collecting and bury a body. general holland smith in the marine commander was reputed to have said later that tara was a tragic mistake. after the battle the marines would bury their dead take detailed plot maps of the grave sites and within a matter of days return to their ships. meanwhile the burial were continued gun issue. identification was made more difficult by the

condition than decomposition of several bodies in a number were lost at sea. i fortunately had the unpleasant duty of attending a number of burials and say i can't remember how many at least a half a dozen but one of the stands out in my memory in particular the chaplain who was in charge of the burial details i was standing next to him after he said his usual words before we dumped the guy ends of a date and i said to the chap on the horizon who is a sky and he said we don't know and i said well his dog tags are in the sailcloth he said. i can't imagine anything more that needs to be said other than they absolutely absurd ridiculous treatment in yes absolutely indifferent treatment was given to all these guys who had died in defense of our country. lieutenant bonny been a posthumous medal of honor winner for his valor in the battle would be buried in

the eighth marines grave site number two. the navy seabee units which were the logistic backbone of every operation would then clean up the battlefield quickly build the infrastructure to support an airfield. this is a picture of the island after the c.b.c. cleaned it up and turned it into a modern air base you can see some of the temporary cemeteries there's thirty three twenty six twenty five this is part of the old pier right here the island basically had forty three cemeteries and in building into a modern air base the basically raced some of the senators. who we think and how it has been working for the australian government as a contractor. he has made some unusual discoveries wrong rebuilding be infrastructure and you know there was one instance we dug a lot of the water table is the one that stain very interested in it and we found it really in complete skull of them still had partial uniform loops

watch. but bar because a lot of the i was how much did the metal yes or rather the rather what was a little bit about in the front of the was. a lot of us lot that was completely gives the side of. this and nothing else up now. so you told somebody and they govern the us government about this. the project engineer the project a project manager and he rubbed off to. the bone numerous organization down but what happened was the law in the rain in the buttons in that up in the office in a rush but. i don't like to bring a draft and i have a draft drawing card and this bag was the title. is that it will months from now on such

a letter to them it's not much so so i think what we should do with the bottom. and then was our reply here which well as. we can israel would i feel almost like he's one of like can you at all leon had spent months seeking assistance from every level of government to address the garbage situation that base you now he discovered something even more disturbing that hundreds of marines remains still lie in the sands of the island just as we've been told by the guys we met with the. woman down on the ground now almost anywhere you walk you see the mortal remains of somebody japanese american he was introduced to the minister of health dr. i was at his action play i don't lie the things that i want to do to help you ultimately he was granted a meeting with the president of cuba i know to talk. it will involve the employment

of citizens of career who will who will assist in lee in the monitoring of the refuse collection of your country and ultimately involve a state of the art incineration system. which will have a number of benefits for its. the brutality of the tower were campaign would soon hit home when the american public began to see the pictures of the casualties and devastation in lead december one thousand nine hundred eighty three the gruesome carnage was so disturbing that some mothers demanded nimitz's resignation. was more striking was not just the heavy casualties but the confusion regarding the burial of hundreds of marines who gave their lives ataru the actual number of total missing people from this from

this battle was five hundred eleven basically it's a very nebulous number there is a huge distance here there was eleven hundred six people lost at the end of the war when the army came back to doing these people up and taken back to the states only three hundred ninety two were brought back to the states there's over well over two hundred fifty probably almost three hundred people on the island today quartermaster corps of the of the army made a reasonably diligent effort starting in february of one nine hundred forty six and winding up in. may of one hundred forty six they had done to find the remains of approximately three hundred maybe four hundred guys but. they report that i read issued by the guy in charge says that they could not account for almost fifty percent of the people who were brought back to the states those are real graves

those are real people who were brought back but there was over three hundred that were never brought back and those people's names are still listed as missing in action today although many of them we have pictures of their graves we have pictures of the maps of where they were buried those people those families were never told that here's your family member and return to the states those people are still lost in space this is a photograph. bernard shelley's grave on the west side of the island near what was known as green beach and that's a photograph of his grave and he's still missing today this is someone named steve momar who no one even knows who he is and no you can't even find. a mention of him in any of the original rosters here's a picture of grave number eighteen with robert's brand bezel norman jr frank as the c. and henry lot so they're all still missing today this is

a photograph of grave number eleven where there are one hundred forty five graves and only thirty two were disinterred this is a plot map of grave number thirty three where four hundred people were were listed as being buried but in reality only one hundred twenty nine are recovered one of those people by the way is alexander bonny man who was who won the congressional medal of honor in the battle of sorrow and in doing so he lost his life and he was buried in one of these temporary cemeteries and never found lieutenant alexander bunnymen was one of four congressional medal of honor winners which also included first lieutenant hawkins william board alone and the only survivor of the battle colonel david chu. bunnymen and many of the group of men were only on his mind when he paid his respects at the marine monument which has been placed in a parking lot away from the litter on the beaches. as

a fitting tribute to the many missing in action and still lost on this tiny stretch of coral leon piece whose respects to a special marine soames lies here he came to the coast watchers memorial a beautiful moral to those guys who gave their lives. in defense of their country and ours too by the way and the brits the the australians in a ruse they were there's. no more allies here but soames is not he lives here or somewhere we're i'm standing and then unmarked grave and like our government recognized forgotten. and of no value. god rest him. and i feel very sad about him and his relatives in the intense difficulty of world war two many people seventy nine thousand of them basically were lost in space this is an example of different branches of the service not

being able to communicate effectively with each other and show where they left all these people and this is not on usual island i mean this is an enormous mistake that happened during an enormously difficult time in american history and this was a reticence generation of people because after world war two many people does that all it's time to get on with our lives and this issue is a done issue but in reality a lot of people's families don't feel that way. leon and the crew finally headed home but for him the work has just begun. he is determined to fight until action is taken by our government i'm going to present the documentary into salad or feinstein and hopefully have her take the necessary action have appropriations provided to tear off so that they garbage control program and the public education program could get underway before cero off sinks under the ocean

a couple of gallons in the twelve the thirteenth island archipelago arnaldo all the needs the ocean and it's only a matter of time maybe a dozen years or twenty or thirty years before the entire island group will be called the new atlantis because there won't be any tomorrow. after nearly sixty five years have passed many unanswered questions remain hundreds of americans are still lost in the sands of the show and there's a dangerous as well as disastrous environmental legacy that remains on this tiny atoll and many other islands throughout the pacific campaign. for leon cooper the battle is just beginning.

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