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 threesome diminishing land sources but the local fiji television station taped an interview of your own story in his current mission to taro. so. 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 a 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 all round this bright yellow red blue car all was all around us and it was a kid very happily sitting on top of the chair for 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 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. player. plays. over the years the browns have collected munitions in their back yard a number of shells are still alive. that's right in the river just for these are. driving thirty six of american history off the still a long way around. yet you really don't kick it and play 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 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. my cordner 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 could be like kind of a there's a whole range of stuff that just keeps turning up the recovery 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's what i had standing upright. on the end of a bomb and nothing to detonate a bomb and i are using it as just one corner here but you can bet. 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 e.o.s. 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 the left foot or rather to the west that's officially for the brighter. as that what's in the water the twenty four is a picture of it that's the facia there's the top see. the wings intersections 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. that's it 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. this is going for sixty no more the church it's here with. us more and more this is

a lot more and add a little good. still with the fuse and the flaws. we do know more than. a lot imo still on that this is full of the play it. still binds of a noble radio portable radio that was run out of a boy named track on red lake stood this is the fault of the jewel but from the supposed officer from immigrants that was dug up and also now tells have been making you can see the nickel couple. of books of emanation put the japanese talking on the porch with a mind gun it's a thirty seven no room still use the whole explosion room the lot of rooms. up on your head like this right carefully around long. 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 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 nearby marshall lyons 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 at it just hours after they took over the island now that you 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 every tenth of december to those up till now to where they land and basically 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 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 mr foley. a little too little was. the show that leon had taped for fiji television was broadcast to all the islanders . so i made a number of trips and. stuff i saw. it was like everyone wanted to like the first stuff. and never did it. all the time coming to think surely. hell. but because i. still. listen to. the best thing for me to kill as many of the end of

the world i did some calculus for science fiction. 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 battle. one marine commented that it was the closest thing to dantes inferno you never seen. it was

a hellish wasteland of destruction. literally covered with thousands of bodies and ordinance. now came the grim task of collecting and buried body. general holland smith and 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 than decomposition of several bodies in 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 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 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. i can't imagine anything more that needs to be said other than they absolutely absurd ridiculous treatment and 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 a race some of the senators. who we can 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 a lot of the war the title of this is the one that stain very much rooted in and we found it really in complete skull of them still had a partial uniform boots watch and a bit of a gloss long into the 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. part of the last one i was going to be gives the side of it and nothing else now. so you told somebody in a government the us government about this. project engineered the project a project manager and the write off to. the loneliness of organization down but what happened was the law in the rain in the buns in that up in the office in a rush by. the military bring a draft and i had to try and drop the drawing card and this bag was the title and they was it will box and i'll call on such a letter to them as much as they are going to say what we should do with the five. and then was our reply here which well as it. was with him for

a war did 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 met with the. woman down on the ground almost anywhere you walk to 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 meeting with the president of cuba i know to top it with one of the employment of citizens of karate who will who will assist in me 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 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 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 was 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 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. 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 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 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 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 board alone and the only survivor of the battle colonel david chu. bunnymen and 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 soames lies here he came to the coast watchers memorial

a beautiful war to 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 i'm not on margrave i like our government on 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 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 to 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. leone and the crew finally headed home but for whom 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 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 taro off sinks under the ocean a couple of gallons in the twelve thirteen island archipelago arnaldo most of 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 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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today children play war in the old case me. but in june one hundred forty one these walls were the first barrier for the nazi troops on their way to moscow and. funders the rest of those were done one by one under seize the sun. water. in the last shelter an unnamed soldier left a few simple words very well mother i'm dying but i'm not surrendering.

three people don't even rock each other man reached out to stern told me but i couldn't make it to them everything stones is exploding i could not get any closer everything was engulfed by. forty four people killed as a passenger plane crash lands in northwest russia eight survivors are hospitalized in critical condition. these a step that long being the type you need to approach it down see an anti nato mood grows in libya following claims of more civilian victims as a result of fresh alliance bombing the part of the leaving fifteen dead including children. and parents fighting red tape for their children's lives dozens of kids diagnosed with the rare hunter's syndrome the process can only survive if the state funds expensive treatment.

by from our headquarters in central moscow here watching r t with me a nice and now way straight to our top story this hour a plane crash that killed forty four people in northwestern russia may have been caused by a power outage on the ground although the ground services were working before its descent local officials say the plane clipped power lines triggering a runway blackout the roof air flight en route from moscow to pet the result was crash landed on the highway just one kilometer from its destination eight passengers survived the incident and are being treated in hospital let's cross live to our peter all over who is following this developing story for us peter do we know anything more about how this. tragedy happened. well the pieces are starting to come together throughout the day what we do know is that this type of to you on

three or four plane on its way from here at domodedovo airport in moscow to patrol as a voice in the northwest of the country crash landed about a kilometer away from its intended final destination crash on the on a runway breaking into pieces before catching on fire now the plane came very close to actually sliding into a row of houses fortunately it stopped short of doing otherwise the casualties would have been many many more now since the plane didn't crash land it was unable to land at the airport the first people on the scene were the emergency services they were people who live nearby people who were passing by at the time and we've been hearing some some stories of true heroism from those who were first on the scene helping those stricken in the fall of aircraft. three people in iraq each one was either. i could not sell but she was larger than the man.