for instance on t.v. just come. now at five thirty pm on sunday here in moscow you with r.t. as we run down the top stories of the week now forty seven people are confronted after monday's passenger plane crash in northwest pakistan two more survivors of the disaster died in hospitals on sunday investigators say they've found a no suggestion of mechanical failure but trying to study the flight recorders more closely. there are reports of mounting civilian deaths across libya with nato accused of hitting another nanda military targets and in rebel held benghazi some

say they're being forced to flee because of their support for colonel gadhafi. skeptics in brussels or staged a fake funeral for the euro this week it came as the e.u. agreed on another multi billion euro bailout for greece for the new austerity cuts demanded in return spot more anger in after. probably well next year on r.t. it's the emotional crusade of an eighty nine year old us world war two veteran alfred stood by what he believes is the indifference of this country towards the memory of fallen soldiers to stabilize. the large concentration of litter on the beach poses an additional health thousand when the refugees swept out to sea during the storm. despite this danger leon saw no empty aluminum cans or plastic bottles to be found base yos major recycling plant nearby where aluminum cans are crushed in both cans bottles and.

we on paid a visit to the owner and manager of the plant it will cut their work and your garden 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 an hopefully an action program with funding from my government but we've got. to be starting the cover i mean you can. fast forward. and call that. way here said and not show what i'm taking it we should expand your operation clean up the beach on red beach one would be my primary objective because my son is a language but you can understand my anger and having seen businesses' gratian on how the ground work 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 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 the anzacs and plan could be used for any island or some dimension land sources. the local fiji television station he can interview your own story and his current mission to terrill. years and say. i want to eat the. stuff. never 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 or. fallen into the water and i had sunk down and there was

a kid sitting on i sure much hank. 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 of course i was all round this bright yellow red blue car all was all around us and here was this 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 but scratching round i'd just leave the bread because i get. back to 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 beyond visited the residence of john and molly brown she filled

a movie about the battle of carro prior to my tour sites. over the years the browns have collected munitions in their backyard a number of shells are still life. that's right. just for these are. coming right in search of american just for. the still

a long. long yet you don't kick at least not one armor those are dangerous shells and weapons of all shapes and sizes a majority of them american constantly turn up on a shelf although these of cause deaths and injuries to the local population over the years there is no exact figure provided by the care about government my quarter 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 has kids turning out they got rid of everyone it's going to be like kind of it is all right just stuff just keep setting up or whatever there are some amazing but something you notice that foreign affairs bomber discovered it was one sort of a chicken curry you know that so i had standing upright. on the end of a bomb and nothing to japanese were using it i just want to be taken from the wheel

you know leon was introduced to australian ex-pats involved in exploring the history of the battle of tara. stan gosh there is a professional diver in unison the expert and peter scarlett who's lived on the island for over fifteen years stan has done hundreds of times often a c.e.o. and is employed by history flights on their computer program to survey the island from lost graves out there there's a plane just looking out for beach that's for the others in the way so that's ok for people who brought it. back what's in the water the twenty four hour is a picture of it that's the vision this is the pulse he. believes in two sections there in the core of. 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 can't tell if that's a that's

a fifty fifty caliber machine. still took up a good talking point on the stand keeps a storage container full of the weapons and munitions he's collecting this is going for. sixty million more that should make your way to u.s. moring what it is a lot more hereditable good. still appears in a slow. leak in the motor. of the law down a hill on the p.c. will look like this. still bugs about the radio portable radio that was run out of a boy named click on read page thirty this is the part of the toolbar drama supposed officer from chemicals that i dug up and also. that is good at making hay you can see the nickel couple. supported them initially put the japanese talking on the porch take the main gun it's

a thirty seven no room. to use the explosion room to kill over and. up on your head like this right carefully for i'm. by the end of day to the ground commander colonel she 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 until. 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 of it 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 eat five years based from nearby marshall islands the japanese were on a mission to bond street the tower landing force. by ten

o five that morning the americans had shut down seventeen of the twenty bombers and force the remaining three back to the basics the marines on base 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 ark. leon paid a visit to mother superior margaret sullivan at 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 the sudden they simply showed up as a writer that's really what i wanted to know everything the senator does i will now to where they land and basically that's his outreach to local officials continued

leon and ted met with the minister of interior. for 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. made was a. cyclist a lot of. good will to live was. the show that me on a tape from fiji television was broadcast all the islanders. if i was. just at school i think the number of trips and stuff i saw killings and it was like everyone what a feeling or stuff i. never did. all the time coming and thinking

surely. telling. but because i. still thought i was the damn thing i think the best thing for me to kill as many of the end of. the world i did something helpless for something which is. simply because i chose. one. by one troth 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 were american marines and two thousand two hundred ninety group and only one japanese officer and two enlisted men survived along with fourteen korean neighbors the entire island was a fast twisted wasteland contest struction. american and japanese bodies

covering the island were a mute testimony to the ferocity of that. one marine commented that it was the closest thing to dante's inferno you'd ever seen. the show was a hellish wasteland of destruction. literally covered with thousands of bodies and ordnance. now came the grim task of collecting and buried bodies. general holland smith and the marine commander was reputed to have said later that cairo 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 which. identification was made more difficult by the condition in the composition 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 as usual words before we got the guy into the date and i certain the chaplain hasan who was a sky and he said we don't know and i said what his dog tags there in the sailcloth he said. and i can't imagine anything more that needs to be said other than i absolutely would serve ridiculous treatment in yes absolutely indifferent treatment was given to all these guys who had died in defense of our country. lieutenant

braun had 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 seabees units which were the logistic backbone of every operation within clean up the battlefield can quickly build the infrastructure to support an airfield. there's a picture of the island after the c.b.s. had cleaned it up and turned it into a modern air base you can see some of that 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 and in any building into a modern air base they basically erased some of the senators who we think and how it has been working for their struggling government as a contractor. he has made some unusual discoveries were building been she was infrastructure he knew that there was one instance we don't like the water table

this is the one that stain every interested in it and we found it really complete skeleton still had partial uniform boots watch and a bit of advice one of the the numbers how might be you know the middle part yes the right of the rather the way a bit with the line in the front of me was. part of the last one i was going to be gives the sun yes and nothing else up now. so you told somebody in a government the u.s. government about this. project engineered a project a project manager and he wrote off to. be at the limits of organization but what happened was the the morning ray and he burns in that up in the oil office in a rush by. an oil rig playing a draftsman or had a proper graphic drawing card and this bag was on the side. and these

little box now found on son a letter to them it's going to just organization what we should do with the prize and then it was a reply here which will as. we can for a awarded i feel almost like he's one of my canyon on leon had spent months seeking assistance from every level of government to address the current situation at base you know now he discovered something even more disturbing that hundreds of marines remains still lying on the sands of the island. just as we've been told by the guys we met with the. woman down on the ground now almost anywhere you walk you see the mortal remains of somebody like japanese american he was introduced to the minister of health. i was at its maximum play 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 and the tougher it will on the employment of citizens of corrupt party who will. assist in the in the monitoring of the refuse collection of your country and ultimately involve a state of the art incineration system. which will have a number of benefits so great. 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 night in forty three the gruesome carnage was so disturbing that some mothers demanded nimitz's resignation. was more striking was not just the heavy casualties but the confusion regarding the burial of hundreds of marines who gave their lives at tara

the actual number of total missing people from this from this battle was five hundred eleven basically it's a very nebulous number and there is a huge distance here there's eleven hundred six people asked at the end of the war when the army came back today needs people to take them back to the states only three hundred ninety two were dug out 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 core of the of the army made a reasonably billeted 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 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 beans 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's brand based on norman jr frank

eggs the sea and henry lot so they're all still missing today. this is a photograph of great number eleven where there are one hundred forty five graves and only thirty two were disinterred this is a plot mass grave number thirty three were four hundred people were were listed as being buried but in reality only hundred twenty nine recovered. one of those people by the way is an alexander bunnymen 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 alexander bonding was one of four congressional medal of honor winners which also included first lieutenant william bordelon and the only survivor of the battle colonel david chu. bunnymen and many of the brave men were on the island's mind when he paid his respects at the marine monument which has been placed in

a parking lot away from the glitter 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 my life is here he came to the close watchers memorial a beautiful war also those guys who gave their lives. in defense of their country and ours too by the way and to bret's the australians of those who were there is. memorialized here but soames is not he lies here are some more we're i'm standing and then i don't margrave i like our government i don't recognize forgotten and i'm 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 to 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 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 souter feinstein and hopefully have her take the necessary action have appropriations provided to tara so that the garbage control program and the public education program could get

underway before taro sinks under the ocean a couple of guidelines in the twelve thirteen island archipelago are not the most the need for 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 with lattice because there won't be any tomorrow. after nearly sixty five years of passed many unanswered questions remain hundreds of americans are still lost in the sands of spatial and there's a dangerous as well as disastrous environmental legacy the remains of this tiny atoll and many other islands throughout the pacific camping. for leon cooper the battle is just beginning a. long as. long as. it

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