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 fish from diminishing land sources but the local fiji television station taped an interview of your own story and his current mission to taro. derek took leon 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 a he he waved at me he and i are about twenty maybe thirty feet under water

and i was looking at i'm wondering what the fuck are you doing here and he was sitting on top of the sherman tank and the corals all round this bright yellow red blue car all was all around us and it was this kid very happily sitting on top of the sherman tank 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 got. 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 leon 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 three cows. that's three. plays. over the years the browns have collected munitions in their backyard a number of shells are still alive. that's right in the river just are these are. live in thirty minutes from american history often the still a long way around and yet you really don't kick it and play for an hour when i am right those are dangerous shells and weapons of all shapes and sizes

a majority of them american constantly turn up on base she'll 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 wanted to be like kind of but there's a whole range of stuff that just keeps turning up or whatever and it's amazing what some people you know there's a foreign affairs bomber discovered it was one sort of a chicken curry you know that so i had it standing upright. by both on the end of a bomb and having to detonate a bomb and are using it as just one corner 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 initials 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 last graves there's there's. just looking at randi that's further evidence of the waste that's a basically for the brotherhood as that what's in the water at the time far is a picture of it that's the facia this the whole see. the waves into sections there before. the debris from the battle still covers the island and every storm on earth new ordinance stan showed leon a fifty caliber machine gun sitting in the water a few yards from the beach front home family has said that's a fifty fifty caliber machine. still the cup again we're talking five dollars stan keeps a storage container full of the weapons and munitions he's collected just lines

like sixty no more to choose the c.e.o.'s the u.s. more a mortar is a more mortar and edible a good. still with the fuse and the flaws you need to know more than. a lot imo still on that this is full of the play it. still guides of of the radio portable radio that was run out of a boy named track on red lake stood this is the fault of the job of trauma supposed officer from to mc and that was dug up and also now tells have been making you can see the nickel couple. of books of emanation of the japanese talking on the prototype for the mind gun it's a thirty seven mil room still use the whole explosion room to a lot of rooms. up on your head like this right carefully but i'm not. 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 a vent 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 marshall islands 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 in the marines on base year were saved from 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 art. 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 that it just hours after they took over the island now that you'll have money 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 look up at the descendants of 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. more than three years i've been trying to get our government can do something about the dozen

creation that has happened to the beaches where so many americans died in defense of our country so i've. made was a. fight with a simple a lot of. little little muscle. the show that leon had taped for fiji television was broadcast all the islanders. i made a number of trips and. i saw. it was like every one but it really never stopped. and never did it. all the time coming to think surely to hell. but because i. still. listen to. this thing. kills many of the end of

the world i did some helpless person which i simply because i chatted. 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 going to be only one japanese officer and two enlisted men survived along with fourteen korean neighbors . 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 tarot 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 on bitch. 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 by one a 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 got the guy into the date and i said the chap on the horizon who is a sky and he said we don't know and i said what his dog tags are in the sailcloth he said. and 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 can 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 it into a modern air base the basically erased some of the cemetery. that we've taken has been working for the australian government as a contractor. he has made some unusual discoveries while rebuilding base use infrastructure and you know there was one instance we dug out of the water table this is the one that stain very interested in and we found it really in complete skeleton he still had a partial uniform loose watch. but far because a lot of the i was how much did the metal yes or rather the rather what it

was a little bit about in the front of the was. part of the last one i was completely gives the side of it and nothing else now. so you told somebody in a government the us government about. the project engineered the project a project manager and the write off to. the bone numerous overlords legend but what happened was the good war another a and b. buttons in that up in the office in a rush but. allowed to bring a draft or have a truck and draft a drawing card and this bag was the title. and they was that it will box and now on such a letter to them it's not so so i'm going to say what we should do with the five. and then was our reply yes which will as. with the cameras were awarded

i feel almost like he want to lie can you at all leon had spent months seeking assistance from every level of government to address the garbage situation at 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've met with the. woman down on the ground and almost anywhere you walk you see the mortal remains of somebody japanese american he was introduced to the minister of health dr. presented saxon place i don't lie the things that i want to do to help you ultimately he was granted a beating with the president of cuba i know to talk a little on the employment of citizens of who will who will

assist in the in the monitoring of the refuse collection of your country and ultimately. a state of the art incineration system. which will have a number of benefits for. the brutality of the tower campaign would soon hit home when the american public began to see the pictures of the casualties and devastation in late december one thousand nine hundred three the gruesome carnage was so disturbing that some mothers demanded nimitz's resignation what 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's eleven hundred six people lost at the end of the war

when the army came back to dig these people up and take them back to the states only three hundred ninety two were dug up and brought back to the states there's over. well over two hundred fifty probably almost three hundred people on the island today the quartermaster corps of the of the army made a reasonably diligent effort starting in february of one thousand nine hundred eighty six and winding up in. may of nine hundred forty six they had done to find the remains of approximately three hundred maybe four hundred guys but. the 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 from. bernard she leaves 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 brand baseball norman jr frank as the sea 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 math grave number thirty three were 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 bonnie 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 bondman was one of four congressional medal of honor winners which also included first lieutenant hawkins william bordelon and the only survivor of the battle colonel david chu. bonnie many many other brave men were on the islands 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 pays his respects to a special marine so much 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 it is really easy with there's. no more allies here but soames is not he lies here or somewhere we're i'm standing and then on margrave 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 the time they get on with their lives and this issue is a done issue but in reality a lot of people's families don't feel that way. leon in 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 the islands in the twelve the thirteenth island archipelago are now the most 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 atlantas because there won't be any tomorrow. after nearly sixty five years of past many unanswered questions remaining 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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to. cause the international atomic watchdog supercenter report of japan's handling of the nuclear crisis our team visits fukushima city declared safe by the authorities and radiation levels of one thousand times the norm. nato admits to killing civilians in sunday's airstrike on tripoli blaming a weapons failure of libyan officials claimed there have been more than eight hundred s. since the intervention began. also in next year's russian presidential election it won't see dmitri medvedev that prime minister putin going head to head during an interview with the russian leader insisted they wouldn't hold compete for the top. of the tragic story of a russian mob of whose baby died because she asked for help through the internet

and not a doctor and a disturbing trend where children suffer from their parents and distrust of the health care services. you're watching r t two pm here in the russian capital thanks for joining us now would be a nuclear security forum in vienna begins with the japanese atomic crisis and international safety dominating the talks while a full report on the situation and the disaster hit country is to be presented later today it's expected to slam the japanese government for underestimating risks facing fukushima nuclear plant and for a slow response to the events artie's sean thomas visited the city just outside the no go zone where radiation levels are well above safety but i mean. the ominous and constant ticking of geiger counters scientists working in fukushima

city concerned. i'm in charge of the group of radiation detection and survey from fukushima university where now thinking their vacation protocol and process set up by the japanese government is not enough and myself i think i should evacuate from this area but because of my job at the university i can't my family and my friends' families are evacuating. officially fukushima city is in a safe area eighty kilometers from the day to plant reactor one and a full sixty kilometers outside the band danger zone but still radiation levels here are much higher than normal just to give you an idea of the consistency right now the delegate count is really three point two nine a micro records which is about thirty times what is more than the accepted level but if you come down here to where i just saw it all and the moderate quality of the radiation quickly jumped up but it's still climbing earlier we got a really good night in iowa.