in the pacific.a young officer was one of the 16,000 men on those 30 ships on their way to hawaii. he's the fourth person i'd like you to meet. like almost all of those in the attack fleet, he did not know the enemy or the target until just before they set sail from that obscure bay and when he found out, he thought he would be sailing to his death. this plan was just so ridiculous. so he cut a snip of his hair and tucked it in an envelope and wrote farewell letter to his wife and two young, very young children, and he wanted the hair to be a memento of the father of the children would never really know. he wrote his will as did many people. and aboard his ship, there was a joke -- they would all receive jp's highest military award for attempting it this attack but none of them, there to get it because americans were sure to detect them from coming and he thought he would die in his words -- , quote, off hawaii in the greatest and most desperate battle in our history. their fleet arrived undetected t

the pacific fleet assumed they needed that much too. if the fleet was tied up at its home port, it would be safe. .... would be safe. nobody seems to have wondered whether the japanese, who also knew the depth of pearl harbor, no one seems to have wondered whether the japanese would tackle the problem rather than simply accept and they did tackle it and they solved it. that was going to be japan's main point of attack, that fleet was indeed bonged for the philippines to the dutch east indies for singapore, all of which japan did attack in the next few days. many in the japanese navy wanted to confine to that part of the world and prefer to leave the pacific fleet alone. and if it came forth to stop japan's conquest after america had declared war, they preferred to deal with american fleet on their side of the pacific ocean. and besides these japanese naval officers argued, a surprise attack on pearl harbor would be enormously risky for japan. and attack fleet would be at sea for days. and could be discovered by american search plane or

man: as a pacific islander, i know that the ocean is in deep trouble. the ve authorave prediction shows that by the year 2050, there will be as much plastic as there is fish in the ocean by weight. every country uses plastic. we need to stop rationalizing that. we need to think about re-use of plastic. single-use plastic has got to be on its way out. and, you know, plastic shopping bags are a good example of that. your family does not need to use them. take a cloth bag with you when you go shopping and put your shopping in there. there's an equivalent of a large garbage truck every minute of every day backing up to the ocean and just dumping plastic into it. we really have to look at ourselves and say, do we deserve this beautiful ocean that was given to us? narrator: it's a $5 billion a year industry and an economic lifeline for dozens of small island nations, but for how much longer? man: as a pacific islander myself, i would ask one question--will the next generation enjoy this industry as we do now? narrator: it's fished every day and in nearly ever

-- asia-pacific. p.m. xuan phuc: [speaking vietnamese] translator: this vast region embraces the world's leading economies, inc. cutie -- including many dynamic economies. it accounts for over 55% of global gdp and is poised to advance trade, investment, connectivity, all in the context of the fourth industrial revolution. p.m. xuan phuc: [speaking vietnamese] translator: vietnam-working responsibly with countries in the region to translate these opportunities into strong dimon is him for growth -- dynamism dealing withile the threat of terrorism and violence, extremism, unilateral's position in power politics come increased pressure searchsources and the for new resources, poverty, population growth, nontraditional security threats, and complex and unpredictable development in the east china sea and south china sea. p.m. xuan phuc: [speaking vietnamese] these are challenges beyond the ability of a single power to address nor can they be had with selfish national interest in mind. p.m. xuan phuc: [spe

another theory about hudson bay, winnipeg, and the pacific by rivers. this is roughly analogous to what we saw earlier on dobbs's map. last, i wanted to show you by alexander mckenzie, british explorer connected with the northwest company, competitor to the hudson bay company and he was the first european to cross the full extent of north america. he entitled his book from 1801, voyages from montrÉal on the river of st. lawrence from the continent of north america to the pacific oceans in the year 1789, and 1793. he first went to the arctic ocean, called the mckinsey river. then, subsequent expeditions made it to the coast of british columbia in 1793. we have three copies of his. and were very important to history of cartography. thomas jefferson by mckenzie's the voyage, and not crossing the continent again, in the united states. >> we continue our look at eugene's literary culture. televangelist danuta pfeiffer and her memoir "chiseled" which looks at her lifetime including the 700 club show with pat robertson as he began campaigning for the republica

nimitz is in charge of everything else in terms of the central pacific, northern pacific and south pacific where robert gormley and bill hallsly are going to command. this idea of central pacific and nimitz moving this way is important. want to talk about yorktown and carrier operations a second. april of 1942 is sort of an epiphany for nimitz as a commander. prior to that time even though we talk about lexington and yorktown being together, it really is a situation where king, despite the fact he's pioneered carriers working together, king really has the idea that, well, maybe we better be a little careful with our carriers. nimitz is the one that really pushes him to marshall his carriers, king said offensive operations, nimitz says, fine, this is how we are going to do it. that happens at coral sea and what brings us to this particular battle. let me go through the numbers of coral sea and you can follow on the map. yorktown, number 1, and lexington, rendezvous under fletcher's command. the 1st, yorktown sends a command, japanese advancing on may 1st. nimitz being nimitz, says, not so f

pacific command area of responsibility. soon, 60% of our overseas tactical aviation assets will also be assigned to this theater. the congressional initiative that is being brought forward will expand investment in the department of defense, strengthening the rules-based order by better positioning us to support regional stability in a changing region. by further strengthening our alliances, by empowering the region, and by enhancing the u.s. military in support of our goals, we intend to continue to promote the rules-based order that is in the best interest of the united states and of all the countries in the region. i would just say to our hosts here today, this unique forum is only possible because of our unique host. singapore is a deacon to this -- beacon to this region, and to the world. its openness, mutual respect that it engenders, and the prosperity of this city states -- this city state allows us all to be here to discuss our differences in a positive environment, and for that, i am grateful. thank you, ladies an

to achieve peace in asia pacific and beyond. [ speaking vietnamese ] >> translator: almost a year ago, the unprecedented and very successful visit by party general secretary set a special milestone and critical turning point in our bilateral ties. this is now being followed by my first visit to america as prime minister of vietnam. [ speaking vietnamese ] >> translator: just before coming here, i held talks with president trump and prior to that had a series of meetings with american secretaries and politicians to discuss ways to strengthen the vietnam/u.s. comprehensive partnership. we agreed on a range of collaborative actions to realize the twin objectives of growth and jobs beneficial to both sides. we will encourage our businesses to form production and value chains and better connect our two markets in a way that would bring the most benefits to our people and to our businesses. [ speaking vietnamese ] >> translator: dear friends, the heritage foundation is a research institution having positive influence on america's policy-making process. your initiatives and recommendations h

navy is very largely engaged in the pacific there they're active moving both in the north pacific between japan and korea and in the south in the in the western pacific south china sea all the way through and so the if you look at where american action is it's about ninety percent nine zero percent in the pacific but the difference in the percentage is that there is a question of pushing pushing and counter pushing as opposed to shooting is chewed that the small american presence in the middle east involves shooting but it is very small indeed right now the the chairman of joint chiefs is actually in afghanistan and they're planning to send four thousand more troops there were many more dead than there reduced and they want to send four thousand in a probably hopeless effort but four thousand troops and four thousand is fewer than there are americans aboard a single aircraft carrier i get your point so in the pacific with no signs of the crisis or on the south china sea resolving how serious can it get says both china and the u.s. are dependent on each other for a trade a military standof

numitz is in charge of everything else in terms of the central pacific, south pacific and then robert halsey is going to chand. and then this whole idea of the central pacific and nimitz moving this way is important. i want to talk about yorktown and carrier operations a second. april, 1942 is sort of an epiphany for nimitz at that time. as we talk about yorktown being together in those operations it's really a situation where king, despite the fact he pioneered working together and everything king has the idea, well, maybe we ought to be careful with our carriers. nimitz is the one that really pushes him with the carriers. that certainly happens at coral sea, and that sort of what brings us to this particular battle. let me just go through the numbers for you here in terms of coral sea, and you can follow along on the map. yorktown and lexington rendezvous under fletcher's command on may 1st. the japanese advancing there on may 4th, comes back with glowing reports and nimitz says not so fast. let's see if we can't really make more of this happen, join up with lexington and go ahead a

and pacific and grafton, along with me, can kiss that revenue goodbye.siness with one of my companies just because i own it. it's got to be good enough to win the business. ana: so this is my interpretation of simple greek. i kind of started the process with what reminds me of greece or greek restaurant. so i just went through so many inspiration images that kind of inspired me to design the furniture. and i really call these "mood boards." i feel like this puts you in the mood like, when you walk into a space, what's the mood? the table, what i designed was in a powder coated metal, and again, bringing in those colors, the blue, the green, and it has a bar top finish. lemonis: and that's cool, that's different. ana: and then for the chair, i wanted to bring in the logo of the simple greek and then the texture pattern fabric on the seat, and it's all laser-cut, and then finished in a green powder coat to have that olive color. and then for the bar stool, i decided to kind of powder coat it in the blue, just to be able to have like that contrast color of

coral crusaders in the seychelles, plastics pollution a threat to us all, and saving the pacific's tuna. 115 islands in the indian oceann and over a million square kilometers of sea--the seychelles, tourist paradise and haven for fish. woman: we depend on our m marine resourcrce for evererything. wee don't have anything without that. narrator: the ocean, a lifeline for the island's people. but for how much longer? woman: there has been a rise inn ocean temperurure, then n you ed up with dedead corals. narrator: coral crusaders saving their reefs and their future for generations t to come. woman: the seychelles, with the resources that we have, the marine reresources, t that's whe have. t that's all wewe have re. and we d depend on o our marine resosource for e everything,g, r it's economimic activitities orr tourirism and fisisheries. we 't have ananything w without that. so i r realized itit was imporot to consnserve the oceanan when'm growing up and d understanding e relatitionship thahat the sseychelloisis people hahave wie oceean, with the mararine ecosysystem, and h how much we y o

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pacific command area of response ability. soon, 60% of our overseas tactical aviation assets will also be assigned to this theater . the congressional initiative being brought forward will expand investment in the department of defense, strengthening the rules-based order by better positioning us to support regional stability in a changing region. further strengthening our alliances, by empowering the region, and by enhancing the u.s. military in support of our goals, we intend to continue to promote the rules-based order that is in the best interest of the united states and of all the countries in the region. our hostsst say to here today, this unique forum is only possible because of our unique host. singapore is a deacon to this region, and to the world. openness, mutual respect that it engenders, and the prosperity of this city states allows us all to be here to ascuss our differences in positive environment, and for that, i am grateful. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. i look forward to your questions. [applause] >> mr.

and the idea is that an inlet from hudson they could lead to the pacific. >> all the oldest part yet to be filled in. >> and he wanted people to explore it. and find out what it looked like. this was part of a collection , you see the cover is broken off so i can simply hold it up there. this is as a bookplate with the name of william fenton who was faculty member in elector and the book plate itself as a map of oregon and washington which shows that his special interest was collecting books and not about this region. and then here's the title page, an account of the countries adjoining to hudson bay in the northwest part of america containing a description of their lakes and rivers, etc. we move over here, this is the map of a book by jonathan carver. it's called a new map of north america from the latest discoveries, 1778 engraved for carvers traffic.so compared to dodds map, this shows a little bit more of the western coast of north america. it has keep blanco and then it has a river of the west. which is as i said earlier was another name for what was called river oregon by carve

in asia—pacific, in more than half of the pipeline, it is in asia—pacific. who do you target? every segment. we have 20 brands in the asia—pacific. it goes all the way down to more economic travellers who decide to stay in more economic brands. chinese travellers are strategically twofold. chinese travellers inside of china growing at a very fast rate, double digits. outbound travel, it is huge. we would never have seen that in many resort destinations. today, the number one source market is china. what other markets are you looking at in asia? there is a slowdown in the north american market where you still have the biggest presence. donald trump cannot have helped and his policies. it made us worried, but we had a great start to the year. the good news is we are naturally hedged. in the asia—pacific, the largest source markets for us were intra—asia travellers. they are the number one market for everything asia—pacific. the indians are growing at a great rate, outbound indian travellers. uk labour rally travel anywhere and find hotels. —— you can literally

as the pacific islands of melanesia, micronesia, and polynesia. a u.s. census estimate in 2015 found 19 million residents of asian and pacific islander descent with a total u.s. population of 248 million people. in california, asian and pacific americans make up almost 21% of the population. and the bay area census in 2010 found that asians and pacific islanders make up almost 24% of the population, inching above latinos as the largest minority race across the nine counties. abc7's chris nguyen is here now with local apa leaders to talk about important issues affecting our bay area communities. >> cheryl, it's great to be here. i'm excited to introduce you to our panel of guests today. gina su is an actor based here in the bay area. she's the winner of the 2016-2017 miss asian global pageant. next, lan diep is an attorney. he currently serves as a san jose city council member representing district four. and finally, vincent pan, executive director of chinese for affirmative action. he's also a board member for the center for asian american media.

robert handa: hello, and welcome to a special edition of "asian pacific america." i'm robert handa, your host for our show here on nbc bay area and cozi tv. since we started this program in 2014, we have prided ourselves in spotlighting the artistic and cultural aspects of the asian american and pacific islander communities, a showcase sadly lacking for many of our aspiring performers. today, we want to show some performances, original performances, taped specifically for these special shows. we will start off with tim atlas, a previous contestant on nbc's "the voice," a young man from san jose who shared with us how he overcame struggles in his early family life to be able to pursue his musical dreams. we'll also hear again from maddie b, who has become a local youtube star with her singing talent. then we continue with one of the most unique musical groups you will ever see and hear, the firebird youth chinese orchestra, young musicians playing traditional chinese instruments. then anh tran playing the zither. we got a great response from viewers who loved watchi

there's "pacific crucible" recently came out.rich books out there. if you're interested, please, go read more, because you'll definitely learn even more than what we'll be able to go through this morning. so let's go back to 1941, december 7th. how many of you remember september 11th, 2001? exactly. so if you think back to december 7th and this generation, that was their september 11th, and they all remember where they were on december 7th. the biggest difference is, we have twitter, we have smartphones, we have facebook, we have everything to communicate. what did they rely on? they relied on the radio, and they relied on pen and paper to send letters. so a lot of the information wasn't available. people didn't know what was going on until they heard from fdr about the attack. so, december 7th, it starts. the japanese are off. their main goal is to secure natural resources. they need oil, they need metals, so that started. starting from then through about march 1942, they did not lose. they were on a rampage. they were two to th

as the pacific islands of melanesia, micronesia, and polynesia.us estimate in 2015 found 19 million residents of asian and pacific islander descent with a total u.s. population of 248 million people. in california, asian and pacific americans make up almost 21% of the population. and the bay area census in 2010 found that asians and pacific islanders make up almost 24% of the population, inching above latinos as the largest minority race across the nine counties. abc7's chris nguyen is here now with local apa leaders to talk about important issues affecting our bay area communities. >> cheryl, it's great to be here. i'm excited to introduce you to our panel of guests today. gina su is an actor based here in the bay area. she's the winner of the 2016-2017 miss asian global pageant. next, lan diep is an attorney. he currently serves as a san jose city council member representing district four. and finally, vincent pan, executive director of chinese for affirmative action. he's also a board member for the center for asian american media. thanks to al

the test was conducted on the 30th of may out in the pacific. here is a blue water chart that depicts the test construct. the ground based interceptor was fired from vandenberg air force base, tracked on wake island in the northwest pacific, giving the interceptor solution to vandenberg to intercept a target launched from the marshall islands. the red indicates the target flyout and the green indicates the gpi from vandenberg. here is a picture of the target lifting off from the atoll in the marshall islands, 5,000 miles from the coast of california. this is the longest range target we've ever flown, the highest altitude and the highest closing velocity from this intercept. this intercept was done with countermeasures. next you'll see a picture of the ground based interceptor launch from vandenberg air force base. out of a test silo that is completely production representative of the actual silos at vandenberg. this is what we test out of. the gbi's production representative of the ce-2 block 1s that will be fielded to fill out the 44 gbis by th

in the pacific ocean freight 70% of the world is covered by the sea.pacific is see the they willyard and challenge us in the south china sea where they claim the entire area and at the same time, we remember that russia is a pacific naval power. >> bring of russia and i think of the arctic. a lot of natural resources there. navalt, the bulk of our is going to be? >> probably not the bulk. i would say it will be divided. the mediterranean is going to continue to matter. think of it this way. -- it becomesing on one side russia and the other side, nato. we will be operating extensively. -- what more do we be doing you a better sense of what is going on in the pacific? >> it was more rhetoric than it was actual movement. as we were trying to do that pavement,. a string -- i think this administration will find its way back in the we need to do is move more of our ships in forces there because if we don't, we will seize that space to china. >> let's look at the residence puzzles. what needs to change? >> number one is warships. we are well below are week ne

one such place is the pacific ocean republic of the marshall islands.n tonight's signature segment"" newshour weekend" special correspondent mike taibbi reports how climate change is increasing the struggle for fresh water there. >> reporter: two men mix sand and shovelfuls of cement, spending hours on end building their seawall-- no, re-building it, and higher each time. banga roriki is working with his nephew, robin, who has been living in this house, on majuro, one of the marshall islands, for 22 years. >> the high tide comes very high >> reporter: he says the wall is meant to stop massive high tides, known here as king tides, like the one that surged through his home last year. on another of the marshall islands, ebeye, those same tides eat away the shoreline everywhere you look. tombstones shoved free and even swept out to sea. what used to be a park surrounding ebeye's power plant- - gone. 74-year-old belma marok has already seen king tides destroy several homes here. >> the corner of the house was right over there, right outside that piece of con

there were no carriers in the central pacific. so both those carriers, the hornet and the enterprise, cruised in the coral sea on may 16. but just 17 days later, moving at breakneck speed by navy standards, all three carriers, including yorktown showed up at point luck. what caused nimtz to act so quickly was a single message, a single transmission from an imperil navy headquarters to a japanese transport ship resting in the marshals. and it was asked to go to saipan, pick up supplies and proceed to a place called a.f. i'll talk more about a.f. later. that dispatch that was pitched up by radio men on owahu left no doubts in nimtz mind that the japanese planned to inside and occupy midway. now, general george marshal, the army's chief of staff, said the closest squeak and the greatest victory in the pacific was at midway. marshal's appraisal of midway is now widely accepted. what isn't so well known is that lightening almost didn't strike on june 4. the battle as we know it almost didn't happen. marshal called midway a close squeak

the boat then began its journey back to the pacific ocean via a trip through the panama canal.island, was a significant accomplishment on the journey, as the tiny island is considered extremely hard to find using natural navigation skills. the last part of the journey included brief stops at the pitcairn and marquesas islands before the crew steered the canoe back to hawaii. 19 countries and 40,000 nautical miles later and the hokule‘a's work is farfrom done — the boat will now embark on an eight—month trip around the hawaiian islands in a bid to reconnect with local communities and schools. good evening. it has been the hottest day of the year so far. lots of dry weather for many of us today. the best place to head was the beach, as you can see from the picture behind me. it has been widely hot and humid across the country, with the exception of shetland. that week weather front that has been with us for well over five days, producing a fair amount of cloud and some drizzle as well. disappointing here, i'm afraid, but elsewhere, lots of sunshine. overnight, a pretty muggy nigh

the only thing that's not really from the pacific is the coral. it had to be man-made. >> coral is actually a living animal. it looks like rock. and it's related to jellyfish, and it actually forms a limestone cavity around itself, so it's basically like the outer edge of the coral is living and building on the limestone skeletons of its ancestors. and the coral in this exhibit, however, is re-created. real coral has to have intense sunlight, so it's also very fragile. >> you can actually step into the reef at the underwater viewing level. and there's a lot to view. there's more than 700 fascinating marine animals. one of the crowd favorites is calypso, the giant sea turtle. when she was found, she had a badly hurt fin. after some delicate surgery, it was decided that calypso wouldn't be able to survive in the ocean, so blacktip reef became her new home. the exhibit also has plenty of sharks, particularly the kind it's named for -- the blacktip reef shark, what's called an apex predator. so, what is an apex predator? >> an apex predator is a top p

he comes rushing back after the pacific war breaks out and ordered home after that. and just arriving on the scene after not long after midway. she will be at gath canal and will be sunk but -- after midway, though, this is the balance. four japanese carriers gone. we have three. this is going into the battle of the gath canal. this is the next moment of parity. you have two ready for battle again. up against wasp, hornet and enterprise. those familiar with battle of gad canal, this is why it's so important. it is the final touch on what makes the midway victory because it's guadalcanal that the surviving -- you know, some survive war and stuff and wrote the memory but the crop of the yap nees corps is kilned. not that many except from the hiryu. anyone that survived midway, they tend to be killed in the two big carrier battles of gad canal. it finishes the way midway turned out it puts final thing on it and here's why. this is the very next year. you see the american industrial force kicking in. its replacement capability. this is all the japanese managed to commiss

the south pacific islands. we need to honor them and their family needs a place to mourn. admiral vasey turned 100 years old this year, and he has asked that something be done with his lifelong dream of having seen a war memorial, a little monument at pearl harbor so people could come and mourn those we have not yet identified or found. to give you an idea of what admiral vasey is like, he tells the story of being hon the submarine and then wondering there's got to be a different and a better way. we cannot fight these kinds of wars. so he is actually the founder of the center for strategic and international studies, we all know it as csis. he has it in the pacific and it's called the pacific forum and there have been many people gone through it as fellows because of his interest in peace. he clearly epitomizes what the greatest generation defines and means and that all american service members who gave their lives is something he does not forget. and he wants to see them memorialized but more importantly than

robert handa: hello, and welcome to "asian pacific america." ♪ i'm robert handa, your host for our showere on nbc bay area and cozi tv. today, we start with a new summer initiative by nbc bay area and telemundo 48, supporting our schools, a way to help students get the necessary tools they need to learn. then a health issue in the asian america and pacific islander communities, hepatitis b, and how to make them hep b free. next, a big event for the filipino community, the 24th annual pistahan parade and festival. it just keeps getting bigger. and finally, we finish with our traditional artistic and cultural performers by tenelle, an artist of samoan heritage with a new album and a live performance here in our studio. well, supporting our schools is a project by nbc bay area and telemundo 48. today, we feature two of our community partners joining us in the effort to help provide families and their students with essential school supplies. joining me is ena yasuhara li the vice president of community impact for united way bay area, who helps oversee the agency's services designed to reduc

yamamoto wanted them to go to the central pacific and he gets his way. the situation at the start of they decreed to go to the central pacific but only after two operations had completed, one was down south which walter went over extensively. the other was the rate into the indian ocean to attack the royal navy. in shorthand to see if they can repeat some of the success they did at pearl harbor with the royal navy in the indian ocean and to the ill the desire to test the defenses of the indian ocean for future campaigns because they're opening operations and they wanted to know what the prospects were. have been forced to promise this and that is why the japanese rated them in april. it was off like pearl harbor, one in colombo, one in the other place. at the same time, they are setting up for the battle of carl c. this turns it on its head because the japanese fleet is on its way home from the indian ocean operation. for modern taiwan. at the same time, two of the were detaching and heading for the c -- sea. it puts full priority on the possible threat

we had a very productive pacific andn the how we can work more closely together in the pacific, our neighborhood, our part of the .orld in discussing operations and further,and strategies we focused on joint efforts in syria,stan, in iraq, and where we are determined to re store peace and stability to and rid theast world of the terrorist scourge presented and is evolving. we took the opportunity to of issueswhole range with the united states and australia having similar views. fact, we are like minded in our world views and we share values, interests, priorities, .nd outlooks and it has been reaffirmed once more of the strength of the bi lateral relationship between australia and the united states. and i also hadn the opportunity to discuss bi lateral issuesen on trade and other areas where australia, u.s. interests coincide. so all in all it was a very productive, useful, important between counterparts, between friends. and we look forward to returning forhe united states in 2018 the next meeting. in the meantime, we will work with our counterparts. rex and jim have become good friends. met on

and the sbx and the northwest pacific. giving the solution to intercept a quadrant in the marshall islands. the red indicates the target flyout and the green indicates the gbi from vandenberg. here's a picture of the target lifting off in the marshall islands. 5,000 miles away from the coast of california. this is the longest range target that we've ever flown. the highest altitude and the highest closing velocity for an intercept. this was done with countermeasures. next you'll see a picture of the intercepter launched from va vandenberg air force base. completely representative of the silos there. this is what we test out of. the gbi is production representative of the block ones that will be fielded to fill out the 44 gbis by the end of this calendar year. what you'll see next is the sensor zone and what the kill vehicle saw in space. this is actual live data from the test. what you see in red is the warhead from the target. and what you see in green is its tank that's flying alongside because in space everything flies

midway was the crucial battle of the pacific war nimitz said. that engagement made everything else possible. i think it's no exaggeration to say, aside from the battle of the coral sea, the battle of midway was the only campaign in which code breaking was so fundamental to the event, if there had been no code breaking there would have been no battle. the battle could not have had it without it. without code breaking, june 4 would have been a very different day than the day history recorded. true, some things would have been the same. anamoto's striking force, the four fast carriers would still have converged on midway. but the three carriers to check that advance, yorktown would not have been there. yorktown would have been 3,000 miles away in the shipyard getting repairs from scars sustained in the coral sea. enterprise and hornet would have been 4,000 miles away and stationed in the coral sea. that is where admiral king wanted them to be to give prosection to australia. australia would have been asking, pleading with king they needed extra pro

in new zealand, the pacific cousins.nto australia, where the boat sailed around the coast sydney. using several different cultural sites, including the great barrier reef. the trip from australia to bali was a difficult one for the crew to the poor conditions but also marked the first time the canoe had ventured further than the pacific ocean. sailing into south africa after a brief stay on the island of mauritius meant the hokule‘a had successfully sailed 10,000 nautical miles. the link between south africa and brazil proved tricky for the navigators who had to use tiny islands as markers to keep them on track. in cuba, crew membersjoint meeting about us relations and discussions about cultural connections between cuba and hawaii before heading to the virgin islands and on to america. after reaching florida in may of 2016, the hokule‘a spent the next three months travelling to the east coast, connecting with local schools, native american and maritime communities. from there, they travelled to new york and new england.

but yamamoto was wanting them to go to the central pacific and he kind of gets his way from that. now, the situation -- sorry. at the start of april, right before the doolittle rally, they had agreed to go to the central pacific, but only after two operations had completed. one was down south which walter went over it extennively. the other was a raid into the indian ocean to attack the royal navy. in shorthand, basically, to see if they could repeat some of the success they did at pearl harbor with the royal navy at the indian ocean and test the defenses in the indian ocean for future campaigns because they were opening operations in the thailand area and wanted to know what the prospects were. so they had been forced to promise this, and that's why the japanese raid the island in april. in a carrier raid a lot like pearl harbor, two of them. at the same time, they are setting up for the battle of coral sea. when the raid happens, this turning it on its head because the japanese carrier fleet is on its own. on april 18th, it is literally near modern taiwan on its way back home. a