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a showdown in the green column of the pm places a no confidence vote later tonight on whether the pa salvaged the austerity cuts in return for the cash lifeline or become the first euro zone nation to default on its debt and. backs the emotional crusade of an eighty nine year old us world war two veteran. in the fall of nine hundred forty three america began a major campaign against the japanese defenses in the central pacific. over thirty five thousand u.s. marines in naval forces were assembled for an invasion. the nov twentieth america

launched an unfair be as assault against one of the most heavily fortified japanese islands in the world. tyrone. the sun on board a higgins landing craft ensign leon cooper was responsible for the lives of hundreds of men. for the thousands of marines riding to the shores that morning no one could imagine the ferocity of the battle to come or the death and destruction thanks. in february of two thousand and eight the on a navy veteran of the tower about and a film crew left los angeles on a journey that took sixty five years. might . be. on the beach. while doing research for my recent book

the war in the pacific of retrospect. i happened across an associated press report that said in effect. where hundreds of marines died there are now millions of plastic bags crumpled paper boxes and when i saw that of course. since i have been a party. or a witness to all of the killings that took place i felt a special way. and i need to do something about this. i was in a home in my parents' apartment building i should trouble remember soul well. that the manic announcement. that really shook me up as well as practically all of america including all the big shots in washington i magine a tiny country like japan. attacking. our pacific fleet and pearl

harbor but and indeed for all intents and purposes making america the giant a people mention. of the globe. the. night of. the. law. was. all i did. and looked out only. at the law and my brother. my brother said lee he was trying to decide whether to order me to get out of the country. or to find a safer occupation than being him but i am country man. and it was first thought that i should become an officer rather than a dog faced. of course i had all of the time i thought

a little late maybe your grading program called peace about it so i volunteered for it. within ninety days civilian leon cooper would become navy instantly on cooper and begin training as an intravenous boat commander. taro was a series of coral reef atolls in the cupboard on group strategically located halfway between the hawaiian islands in the philippines. dialing had been under the jurisdiction of the british government to december one thousand nine hundred forty one two days after the attack on pearl harbor japanese soldiers came ashore additional governing island that old tower and proclaimed it for the emperor. both sides understood incessantly to control islands across the sea. the american commands tactical approach dated back to teddy roosevelt's assessment of world sea diplomacy because for the late nineteenth century roosevelt always believed that if

the u.s. was to contain japanese expansion it would need to command strategic garland bases across the pacific. let me six credits list of all i can look up looks like a good thing and i like the site the best course of action for the five states are set up hearing at home playing at chick and holiday loved one station long enough to expand the mother was looking at that looking for something along. the batman that katniss crack or that. the japanese conscripted over forty one hundred korean slave laborers to build up a show's defenses as well as a small airstrip. they sent in over twenty six hundred crack japanese imperial marines to defender. massive fortifications with gold including giant pill boxes some over seven hundred feet in height ten large eight

inch gun emplacements field artillery and anti-aircraft guns. the war in the pacific was commanded by two key figures general douglas macarthur and admiral nimitz after the japanese lost the battle from guadalcanal in the south pacific macarthur into strips focused on recapturing new guinea nimitz handled the central pacific region. and plans were drawn up to send forces against the japanese strongholds in the gilbert and martial law and. mark no one is a u.p.s. pilot in the world war two military historian he heads the nonprofit organization history flights they are working to locate the over seventy eight thousand missing in action from the second world war wrote way of saying here is a good deed to intelligence a map that the u.s. marine corps put together for what they called helen island which was the code name

for a base you know a toll and the tar island region and they built this very complex now with all of the difference in information that they gleaned from a number of overflights from b. twenty four craft taking photographs of the island and it has pictures of all different machine gun positions and the different types of large caliber weapons that would be is to shoot landing craft that has pictures and can't traverse the roads the airstrip. in june of one nine hundred forty three american reconnaissance flights discover the base you know had been transformed into a heavily defended outpost the now including a four thousand foot airstrip capable of supporting japanese bombers this dramatically extended their pacific sphere of office. after hearing this news nimitz in the pacific fleet command decided to invade tower.

upon his arrival at fiji leon was interviewed by reporters for a fiji sun article on his visit to the nation of care my job was to bring us all perps in and my boat. during many trips into the red beach. so. the three days of savage are a. top of the japanese how to kill our america. and taught us. how to kill more stupid thing. what the hell is that mean. leone's first official meeting with american authorities would be with deputy assistant to the us ambassador incurable. first of all we're here to meet with the ambassador and his staff ambassador. especially wanted to have. us speak with him before we want to. he promised he would do his

best to join us and taro and introduce us to. be president after about the country that includes. hey i need my grammar's license but it's up to maybe get that i know there's no guarantee of. thanks to ambassador in a staff again i feel very confident it will be on the road to achieving something even a minimal objectives at least we'll get an action program going underway. with ted man a company beyond boarded a jet for the highlight of his journey a return to tower. as the fortifications of base year were told the tower will continue the japanese commander admiral sugar saki boasted to his troops that one million americans could not take the island in one hundred years. however american naval and marine forces

which some test play on november twentieth nine hundred forty three the united states launched a major and five u.s. offensive against. a massive naval bombardment the place starting at dawn. by nine am this wave after wave of marines were launched from the ships the logistics of the battle to combat turn. the tide is not as deep as what they had projected it would be a project that would be about six to seven feet above the fringing reefs that they wouldn't land and there was a lot of confusion between the naval bombardment they were supposed to cease fire and there was the end aviation detachment of a bomber a craft a fighter aircraft on the island and they were simply using and they actually had a cease fire there was about thirty minutes when there was no firing. and it enabled the japanese to take a lot of their soldiers from the south side of their heavily defended part and move

them up to the north south as they are. and in doing so they were able to bring considerable devastating fire on the marines as they entered the league in. the japanese a kind of defense strategy that covered every inch of the on the ground hundreds of marines were killed by the accurate mortar and every gun fire at the reefs edge and then he had to disembark offshore and slog through with every machine gun fire dangerous mines and deep bomb craters and hope to make it to shore. among the first waves of many heroes saved the day one was a young lieutenant alexander bonnie umbrella his men to question would be on the pier to the sea world. after sixty five years leon cooper finally returned to that fateful stretch of sand that shaped his destiny.

ironically his first encounter at the airport would be descendants of his former adversaries. on from the united states. teleport all of them hard at the time i was here sixty five years ago. i was a member of the vote that attacked as the japanese who are here defending this island . and we were not very friendly toward each other. we were angry toward each other and a lot of people got killed including over four thousand of your of your your people are you live here and i want to honor your country men who died in the battle of

carolina. they all the sudden i see things happening. and i feel like. i'm not really here at home. the first item of business was from the on in ted to the with the assistance of the president of cuba caught in the hopes that they could access the president of the police leaking the system to. the short list of what is tied to this list but if you are unable to meet with the person with least two percent to the ministers despite the fact that because of what happened sixty five years ago i had no desire whatsoever to return but after giving a great deal of thought to the matter i felt i could do something that would be of benefit most of the citizens of your country as well as to honor the memory of all those guys. died and a war in a battle that really was the beginning point of the defeat of japan. i had

a small part to play in that victory. and i'm glad i had the opportunity all that time i didn't think very much of my participation i wanted to be somewhere else. i'd like to break you over there but i recognize you from here leo and drove to the beach that haunted many years and we know we came in from here we came and from here. i know damn well we can. smell the stench of all those bodies running in the sun sills comes back to me. all that stink go guys decomposing. and i came ashore about here. and i know why the bed the beach master as i

remember coat motioned to me come on the shore and i was to go to the pier you see what sticking out there is the remains of the pier i came ashore about here between here and the pier and i promised behind the scene well. and the chaps were shooting at me from up there somewhere. they were shooting at me from every angle there was you see they had this whole thing and plated and designed so that all the approaching boats came in and or murderous crossfire so there wasn't any we're going to go out of the line of fire they were shooting out from here from there and from there every goddam angle was covered and we don't know and stumble right into all this slaughter. by the end of the day the marine second battalion was holding on to the seventy to three hundred foot stretch of sand and fifteen hundred to five thousand americans

a paycheck dead. i'm just. i can't stand it. look at that look at this sand here i couldn't get anywhere near the sand i was going up on the reef. there was a tank right about here half in the terminal. gone. we got stuck in the early am i with all the guys on my boat i think i remember saying i was going to let go and i said no because i knew these guys would have drowned because we were over a hundred yards from the sand and they would have gone with their heavy packs of the best and i don't know i think i did i think i had no say in the boat they were

trying to climb out of the boat by the janitors shooting i said. skyward and we found an access through the reef and that's when i landed these guys obviously i don't know i don't know but i think i did i think that. however despite the heavy casualties a further disaster was averted a coordinated japanese counterattack might have overrun the exhaust arenas but there was no communication from the japanese command kolker the japanese have known charge i should asahi decided to move his headquarters from this area to the south part of the island and when they were doing that they went outside of their bunker and a five inch shell exploded right near them and killed them off and in doing that in losing their tactical commander on the first day of the battle the japanese did not amount to the counter attack in the night which potentially could have driven the

marines right off of the island. i've had my moment of. let's go take a look at those eight inch. the legacy of the battle is still scattered across the sands of gratiot to this day the island is covered with the rusting remains of several of the big guns including the eight inch emplacements. tanks heavily fortified pill boxes and the command post. the second day of the invasion was a precarious one for the americans although they had secured two small beaches the marines still had to fight in spite inch to the airfield that bisected the island. after waiting nearly twenty hours in their posts the first battalion eighth marines attempted to land ashore almost half of them never made it to the beach a large number of the all the kids were knocked out of action in the first day and

after that they had to use primarily higgens beds in the havens birds were dropping the marines off at the fringing reef because they couldn't make it all the way after the island and the marines had to go about seven hundred yards across a title flat and in doing so they were basically waiting through waist deep water all along this area from red beach three to and one in the face of tremendous japanese fire. the battle had many own some heroes in the midst of the landings a young naval officer was on board a higgins boat in the horrible calmly rescuing room to karim's from the water while several enemy machine gunners tried to knock him out. that young lieutenant j.g. was any older and he was a rising hollywood actor before this thing in the ring he had stored in several movies and with major headline television shows including a popular series green acres i was sitting out there with a bunch of marines and one of them knew who the fuck is that somebody asked me and

i said i don't know it's an easel a navy guy of some kind hands and the guy's been out there for the last fifteen twenty minutes and the japs are shooting at him and he's hauling guys out of the water i said this guy is either brave or stupid or both and he kept doing it tony made several trips back each time with a boat load of went wonderbra wanted marines going back to the transport ship for medical treatment with these guys. he saved the lives of nearly seventy marines that day. i got to know a number of the medical doctors we had eight is there a member aboard. and the senior medical officer of an old guy in a chance conversation i want to know what his specialty was he said that my gynecologist and not seeing the may to be about as absurd as thing is i could imagine i said you know just possibly any one of us might be pregnant he says i'll take care of you. but there was another guy among the eight he also

and a chance higher chance conversation i want to know what his specialty was he's a path ologist by training and i said you're a natural for this you can be sure and take care of all of us so the medical doctors on my ship as well as on the number of other transports there took care of these guys i remodeled remember distinctly on my many trucks carrying the wounded back to my ship for medical treatment one of them died but how many others died you can only guess or were these guys able to deal with trauma with war wounds i doubt it. despite the initial casualties at the beach heavy naval bombardments helped turn the tide. which ended alexander bonding and rallied his marines and singlehandedly launched a major assault on a large bunker filled with over one hundred fifty japanese defenders during the

course of this skirmish he was mortally wounded the marines finally worked their way in the end and began to push the japanese defenders back to the airfield. just behind the rusting giant eight inch guns that protected the shore leon was shocked by what he saw. al i'm pointing to what seems to me the very symbol of every word thing that represents to me as a reason for my trip to see we are surrounded by garbage everywhere but also there are. on this beach which of course is the most appropriate sig signification a symbol of everything that's wrong with our goddamn government allowing not only garbage but to accumulate where so many guys died.

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