incheon red beach one would be my primary objective because my salty language but you can understand my anger and having saying this in desecration of how ground war on red beach. leon had developed an action plan for bay sheo that included two phases the first would be to set up refuse containers in 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 typed in interview story in his current mission to taro. 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 i'm wondering what the fuck are you doing here 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 show 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 leon visited the residence of john and molly brown she showed a movie about the battle for tara prior to a tour of the sites. just tired of her three cows. three. player. playing. over the years the browns have collected munitions in their backyard

a number of shells are still alive. that's right good for the earth and just for these are. some of the five and thirty six of american history are often the still a long way around. yet you really don't kick a place 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 a 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 already on its it could be like kind of it is alright to stuff it just keeps turning up or whatever and it's amazing what some people you know the senate foreign affairs bomber discovered was one sort of

a chicken curry you know that so i had standing upright. on the end of a bomb and having to detonate a bomb and are using it as just one corner of the year 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 yo 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 looking at randy that's further either to the waste that's obliquely holborow it as at what's in the water at the time or there's a picture of it that's the facia there's 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 coke again we're talking five dollars stand keeps a storage container full of the weapons and munitions he's collected. this is going for sixty no more to choose the c.e.o.'s of us for a mortar is a lot more and at a lower good. still with the cues and the flaws you need to know more than. a lot imo still on that this is full of the play it. still binds of of the radio portable radio that was run out of a boy named track on red baked goods this is the fault of the job a troll the supposed officer from him again that i dug up and also now tells had

been making you can see the nickel couple. of books of in addition to the japanese still going to go take the mine gun it's a thirty seven the room still use the whole explosion room to a lot of rooms. up on your head like this right carefully but i'm going. by the end of day to the ground commander colonel shoot 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 near by. 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 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 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 these island all of

a sudden they simply showed up as a right to die is that really what i want to finish up everything the descendants of those up till now 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 beach as well as so many americans died in defense of our country so i've. made was a. fight with just a whole lot of. little 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 and. stuff i saw. it was my life and everyone but it really

never stopped. and never did. all the time coming to think surely. but because i. still. was. the best thing for me to kill as many of the end of the world i did something helpful for science fiction by simply because i chat. 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 labor

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 ordinance. 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 gun issue. identification was made more difficult by the condition and decomposition of several bodies and a number were lost at sea. i unfortunately 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 dumped the guy into the date and i said to the chaplain hasan who is a sky and he said we don't know and i said well 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 would serve ridiculous treatment in yes absolutely and different

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 as 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. there's 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 a race some of the senators. who we've taken out it's 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 wall the title of this is the one that stain very interested in and we found it really in complete skull of them still had a partial uniform loose watch a bit more 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. a lot of us law and it was completely gives the side of. this and nothing else now. so you told somebody in a government the u.s. government about this. project engineered the project a project manager and the rug off to. the bone numerous organization down but what happened was the law in the rain and he runs in that up in the office in

a rush but. i don't like to bring a drought and i have to try and drop the growing part of. this bag was the title. and he was it will months and now such a letter to them it's not much so so i'm going to say what we should do with the bottom. and then was our reply which well as. with him the forever war did i feel almost like he's one of the like 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 met with the. woman down on the ground and almost anywhere you walk you see the mortal remains of somebody the japanese american he was introduced to

the minister of health dr boyd to present its maximum place i don't lie the things that i want to do to help you ultimately he was granted the meeting 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 or 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 eighty 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 that 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 today these people up and taken 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. a 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. 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 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 bonnie min 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 minh and many other brave men were on the yawns 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 so much lies here he came to the coast watchers memorial a beautiful war and 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 when there is. no more allies here but soames is not he lies 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 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 heading 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 a documentary into salad or feinstein and i hope play have her take the necessary

action have appropriations provided to tara so that they garbage control program and the public education program could get underway before taro off sinks under the ocean a couple of gallons in the twelve the trick chain island archipelago are now but also the nice 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 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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