. >> mark lives in mindanao. >> mindanao? yeah.ow, does a journalist need to carry a firearm in this country for me? >> yes in the philippines, a press badge is no defense, particularly in the south of the country where mark novales lives and works. >> mindanao have been war torn for the last how many years because of the radicalization of recent years. this growing specter of i.s.i.s., mindanao is fertile ground for that now, traditionally, the argument against journalists arming themselves is that journalists have always been able to portray themselves as noncombatants. >> yes, there was some presumption that they would not shoot you. yeah, but these days people seem to not make that distinction. >> yes. >> dating back to the marcos, the marcos years even. >> yeah. >> since 1992, 77 journalists were killed. >> politics here can be deadly. just before christmas in 2009, the maguindanao massacre claimed the lives of 58 people, dozens of whom were journalists. it was the single deadliest event for journalists in history. mark was th

is decided upon with the idea that you could make an earlier assault in the philippines, either mindanao, and then later or later directly. and that advanced to two is on the alternative of formosa is dismissed in large part because eventually the various staffs both in washington and in nimitz's headquarters in hawaii realize they don't have the assault shipping capacity to make that work, particularly as the fighting in europe expands is to some degree slower than anticipated. so some of the earlier that would have supported the division of formosa relied on army divisions that aren't available in the pacific because they have to go to europe from online. someone has asked was there an air commander on scene this should be and see who could directed the carrier air attacks on creatures forces more effective league presumably than just all ganging up on poor old masashi there was not and logan had volunteered to do that and stick with lee's task force four holes. it was so saying simpson the mindedly with those i was forced that he didn't do it. right over on the right bob bunky i guess