taro was a series of coral reef atolls in the gilbert island group strategically located halfway between the hawaiian islands in the philippines. the go board islands 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 at bay she told the governing island atoll of towels and proclaim that for the emperor. both sides understood the necessity to control islands across the pacific. the american commands tactical approach dated back to teddy roosevelt's assessment of world sea diplomacy devised for the late one thousand century. roosevelt always believed that if the u.s. was to contain japanese expansion they would need to command strategic island bases across the pacific the basic strategy and worst of all i tell you for a spotless record and. i decided to mess up our selection for the five states or someplace or call a dollar. a ship and hosting a polling station cod smacks of mindless settlers planted their stomachs toppling the batman that a palace cracked her nec

a speak with him before we want to throw up the promise that he would do his best to join us and taro and introduce us to. the president of. the country that includes taro i say i need my grammar's license but maybe to get that i know there's no guarantee of. a sanctuary ambassador in a staff again i feel very confident it will be on the road to achieving something even minimal objectives at least we'll get an action program going underway. with ted man a company leon 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 would soon test that place on november twentieth one thousand nine hundred three the united states launched a major and furious offensive against our. 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 took a

the local fiji television station taped an interview with leon story and his current mission to taro. derek 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 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 i'm wondering what the fuck are you doing here and he was sitting on top of the sherman tank and the koran was all round us bright yellow red blue car all was all around us and it was this kid very happily sitting on top of the chair of a tank 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 got. 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

taro was a series of coral reef atolls in the gober dining group strategically located halfway between the hawaiian islands in the philippine. islands had been under the jurisdiction of the british government to december ninth one nine hundred forty one two days after the attack on pearl harbor japanese soldiers came ashore the governing island atoll of tara and proclaimed it for the emperor. both sides understood the necessity to control islands across the sea. the american commands tactical approach dated back to teddy roosevelt's assessment of world sea diplomacy devised for the late one nine hundred centuries. roosevelt always believed that if the u.s. was to contain japanese expansion they would need to command strategic island bases across the pacific. the basic strategy first of all i tell you for the spotless secretary to his hockey decided the best time for selection for the five states are set up a series called play his partnership and home state a polling station todd park near seattle my mother must sit at that but their stuff explained the batman that it passed the fact.

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 but. long. long as. the atlantic. it's. coming. up. children play war in the old case me. nineteen forty one these walls were the first barrier from announcing troops on their way to moscow and. the wrestlers were dying one by one under siege this. was the option. to cool. down the last shelter an unnamed soldier left a few simple word

parallel 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 arnaldo also 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 newish lattice because there won't be any general. after nearly sixty five years of passed many unanswered questions remain hundreds of americans are still lost in the sands of a ship 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 beyond cooper the battle is just beginning. i was just thinking about my future before the foreign companies came i dreamed of owning a key. than cutting factory. but we have less garbage now. some businesses who come here make fun of me. regular garbage boy i'm not bad like people think. i'm a good person. it's just the people don't see me. but i feel it was time people like me. that one. that i feel peo

would for example the color of the more taro you see a little bit so we will get dice from herbs ago the mixture of many dyes meets the road salute darker it looks like serif there are fewer daughters the root of matter produces a very beautiful red dye no chemicals around it nothing but natural components making rugs is a family business to the subtleties of this very old armenian handicraft handed down from generation to generation. because the little square means an artist with a weave row after row boats and every color is here it is. like the element implants this factory has a soviet past behind it then automatic looms are brought in to make rugs quickly and in large quantities none the less ancient technologies have become popular in armenia since independence. it takes a month for the weaver to complete one square meter is also a very difficult job taking a lot of effort for that reason there are prices are higher than those of machinery who are absorbed all the dentist. i mean such europe at home is seen as a sign of the world's. there is some ten million ethnic armenians ar

the country so that's an important point also as i had mentioned the spanish prime minister is up at taro in st petersburg for our work on the conference and russia and spain. working on contracts that were worth some eight hundred million euros when they put pen to paper here in st petersburg among them the countries will jointly build new trains and they are working to develop oil and gas here in russia so that's new business and investment coming into the country always a good thing for the leadership here russia and spain aiming to boost trade to about ten billion dollars a year or so a lot of big business coming out of out of the st petersburg international economic forum on day three of the gathering and that's the business news here on our t.v. stay with us headlines up next. day children play war in the east me. but in june one hundred forty one these walls where the first barrier fell and as the troops on their way to moscow and. restless were done one by one under ceaseless. water. in the last shelter an unnamed soldier left a few simple words farewell mother. dying but i'm not

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country so that's an important point also as i had mentioned the spanish prime minister is that the taro in st petersburg for our work on the conference and russia and spain working on contracts that were worth some eight hundred million euros may put pen to paper here in st petersburg on. the countries will jointly build new trains and they are working to develop oil and gas here in russia so that's new business and investment coming into the country always a good thing for the leadership here russia and spain aiming to boost trade to about ten billion dollars a year or so a lot of big business coming out of out of the st petersburg international economic forum on day three of the gathering and that's the business news here on our t.v. stay with us headlines up next. move. more than a month. in one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is antarctica and people have to be aware that they are far away from civilization shawntel those discovers what makes antarctica so special and attractive for many the wildlife in antarctica is closing and friends of. expedition to the bott