it's. just. hello this is our team from moscow my name's kevin owen here with you this hour with a headlight update nato admits it launched the air strike that killed nine civilians in a tripoli suburb while the british taxpayer is wary of reckless spending and in the bill for three months and bloody stalemate. the international atomic energy agency is expected to slam japan for poor handling of the fukushima crisis and nuclear safety form opens in vienna aimed at improving safety regulations and preventing a repeat of the japanese presence. at every other state once the second time around

but it's the people who have the final word so says president medvedev he still hasn't announced whether he'll stand again but did rule out a face so for the prime minister to pull the. plug thirty pm here in moscow next for you the emotional crusade of an eighty nine year old us world war two veteran outraged by what he believes is the indifference of his country towards the memory of foreign soldiers. the large concentration of litter on the beach poses an additional health houser when the refuse and swept out to sea during the storm despite this danger leone saw no empty aluminum cans or plastic bottles he found a base yos major recycling plant near by road loom fans are crushed in both counts . leon paid a visit to the owner and manager of the plant terror and your war that i wrote

repeatedly to the washington usual suspects the president and the white house the secretary of defense and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff members of congress so i'm here to began and hopefully an action program with funding from night government but we've got. to be starting we've covered i mean you can't. fancy bottles. and carpet. away here it says in a nutshell what i'm thinking that we should expand your operation clean up the beach on red beach one would be my primary objective because my salty language but you can understand my anger sure and having saying this desecration of how ground war on red beach leon had developed an action plan for a base you know that included two phases the first would be to set up refuse

containers and collection centers throughout the beaches and employing local citizens a second phase would be to establish state of the art incineration systems that would recycle trash as well as provide electricity for the island the ons action plan could be used for any island they simply mentioned land sources. the local fiji television station three thousand interview with the story and his current mission the terrible. here's. the way. they were to come out in his boat to revisit the scene of the battle. i used to have a nightmare. i granted for years afterwards. i had some rather. fallen into the water and i had sunk down and there was a kid sitting on i am on track. 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 he was sitting on top of the sherman tank and the corals oran a bright yellow red blue car all those all around us and it was just a kid very happily sitting on top of the church and that's a dream that i had for years. i had told my wife. if i start switching around i'd just leave the bread because i get. back kind of crazy i'm not aware of that 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 cleo and visited the residence of john and molly brown. she showed a movie about the battle for tara prior to a tour of the sights. six

the tower. over the years the browns have collected munitions in their back yard a number of shells are still alive. that's right. they were just for these are. some great inserting from american just for offering the still a long and. yet you said it's ok to please not whenever there's

a dangerous shells and weapons of all shapes and sizes a majority of americans constantly turn up on a show 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 might cordner the local australian naval commander on the island still has the difficult task of dealing with world war two ordinates. the issue here is that the other states turning out how they got rid of all we want to do i kind of it is all right just stuff just keep setting up or whatever and it's amazing what some people you know there's a car bomb i discovered it was that one sort of a chicken curry you know that sort of standing upright. and he had a bomb and i think the japanese bomb and i were using it i just don't want to go to combat the we'll you know leon was introduced to australian ex-pats and brought in exploring the history of the battle of tara. stan ghosh to his professional diver

and the nation's expert and peter scarlett who's lived on the island for over fifteen years stan has done hundreds of guides off base you know and he's employed by history flights on their computer program to survey the island for last grains out there so there's a i'm playing i'm just looking out for beach let's put the other to the waste that's a place where people brought it that's what's in the water be twenty four here's a picture of it that's the vision this is the focus here. the waves into the sections there in the core of. the debris from the battle still covers the island and every storm on earth new ordinance sand showed leon a fifty caliber machine gun sitting in the water a few yards from the beach front home can happily that's a that's a fifty fifty caliber machine. silver cup again we're talking played on the stand keeps a storage container full of the weapons and munitions he's collected this is going

for sixty million wanted to make your way to us more and more there is a lot more water and edible good. still appears in a slow. leak in the motor. of the life of a hill. or the like this still guides of a local radio portable radio that was run out of a boy named track on race bait stir this is a part of the tool but from a supposed officer from pemmican that i dug up and also tells it is a make you can see the nickel cup of. the books of a nation put a japanese cult going to take for the main gun it's a thirty seven zero room still used to hold closer to lower and. up on your head like this very carefully for i'm. by

the end of day to the ground commander colonel sure who had been wounded by shrapnel during his landing the day before rallied his troops to capture the airport runway as effectively cut the enemy defenses into. they 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 eat fighters based from 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 bothers and force the remaining three back to their base the marines on base here are safe 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 through 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 and now that you have money and playing on a warning that japan was going to occupy these island all the sudden they simply showed up as a right to that is that's really what i wanted and i think the descendants of those that build up now to one of their land and basically that's 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 is happening to the beaches where so many americans died in defense of our country so i've. come a place. like this to a lot of. little little was a. show that leon had taped from fiji television was broadcast all the islanders. but if all these. different sorts i think the number of troops and the big stuff i saw killings i never saw like everyone what it really were stuff. and never did it. all the time was coming and i kept thinking surely. but because i. still. listen. to this thing to me kills

many of the end of. the world i did something helpless for something that you. simply because i channeled this one. by one twelve pm on november twenty third the island was declared secure over five thousand five hundred men lay dead on the sands one thousand one hundred thirteen where american marines and two thousand two hundred ninety were born to 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 bomb. one marine commented that it was the closest thing to dante's inferno you'd ever seen. a show was

a hellish wasteland of destruction. literally covered with thousands of bodies and ordnance. now came the grim task of collecting and burying body. general holland snus the marine commander was reputed to have said later that heroin was a tragic mistake. after the battle and the marines would bury their dead. detailed plot maps of the grave site and within a matter of days return to their ships. meanwhile the burial were continued on that ship. identification was made more difficult by the condition in decomposition of several bodies and a number were lost at sea. i fortunately had the unpleasant duty of attending

a number of burials at sea 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 got the guy into the deep and i said with a chaplain hasan who is a sky and he said we don't know and i said well his dog tags they're in the cell cause he said. and i can't imagine anything more that needs to be said out of than they actually serve ridiculous treatment in yes absolutely and different treatment was given to all these guys who had died in defense of our country. lieutenant bonded with 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 within clean up the battlefield can quickly build the infrastructure to support an airfield. this is a picture of the island after the seabees and cleaned it up and turned it into a modern air base you can see some of them person matures there's thirty three twenty six twenty five this is part of the old pier right here the island basically had forty three cemeteries on it and and in building it into a modern air base they basically erased some of the senators. that we cannot it's been working for the australian government as a contractor. he has made some unusual discoveries rockne building base use infrastructure you know there was one instance we don't like the full title this is the one that stain here interested in and we family in complete skeleton still had partial uniform boots luck and good luck because

a lot of the early i was how might be a good thing the metal part of yes the road of the rather the white was a little below him in the front of the it was. our last one i was between gives the sun. and nothing else up now. so you told somebody in a government us government about this. project and to me the project probably meant to tell you the right off to. the admiral nimitz overlords lation and. what happened was the the war in array and he burns in that up in boyle office in a rush but. you know if we bring a draftsman or have a truck the graphic drawing card and this bag was underneath the title. and it was it will now sample and sign a letter to them it's going to so i think what we should do with the five and then

was our reply here which will rise. with him for a awarded i feel almost like he's one of my can you know leon had spent months seeking assistance from every level of government to address the current situation in patient now he discovered something even more disturbing there's hundreds of marines remains still lie in the sands of the island. i just as we've been told by the guys we met with we are so used you want down on the ground almost anywhere you want to see the mortal remains of somebody japanese or american he was introduced to the minister of culture to cuba i visited saxon place i don't lie the things that i want to do to help you ultimately he was granted a meeting with the president of kirkuk i know to top it it will involve the employment

of citizens of care of the who will will assist giddily in the monitoring of the refuse collection of your country and ultimately and won't be 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 nine hundred forty 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 that are the natural number of total missing people from this from this battle was five hundred eleven basically it's

a very nebulous number and there's a huge distance here there's eleven hundred six people lost. at the end of the war when the army came back to davey's people and take them 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 thousand nine hundred eighty six and winding up in. may of nineteen forty six 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 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 korean 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 eggs to see and henry lott 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 dysentery this is a plot map of great number thirty three or four hundred people were were listed as being buried but in reality only hundred twenty nine are recovered one of those people by the way is alexander gone eamonn who was who won the congressional medal of honor in the ballot sorrow and in doing so he lost his life and he was buried in one of these temporary cemeteries and never found within it i would zander bonding was one of four congressional medal of honor winners which also included first lieutenant hawkins william more than one and the only survivor of the colonel the. bunnymen and many of the brave men were on the you know 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 pays his respects to a special marine solmes lies here he came to the coast watchers memorial a beautiful war also those guys who gave their lives. in defense of their country and ours too by the way and the brits the australians of those who were there is. no more allies here but soames is not he lies here or somewhere we're i'm standing and then i don't margrave i like our government on recognized forgotten. and of no value. god rest him. and i feel very sad about him and his want to have us. 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 who said well some 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 head home where for him the work is just begun he is determined to fight until action is taken by our government i'm going to present the documentary into souter feinstein and hopefully have her take the necessary action have appropriations provided to tara wall so that the garbage control program and the public education program could get under way before her or sinks under the ocean a couple of guidelines in the twelve thirteen island archipelago arnaldo most of

the needs of 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 a new wood latticed because there won't be any. after nearly sixty five years of cast many unanswered questions remain hundreds of americans are still lost in the sands of a ship 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. the long as. long as. long as.

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