Monday, May 25th, is Memorial Day. This is the day to honor our fallen soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice for our great nation.
Historian Mark Noah was on “War Room” with host Steve Bannon to discuss the estimated 80,000 missing American soldier casualties from WWII.
Noah is the founder and executive director of History Flight, which is a 501(c) non-profit. Their mission is “research, recovering and repatriating America’s service members back to United States of America.” These soldiers are considered MIA or considered non-recoverable.
“It’s a little-known fact that 19 percent of America’s WWII casualties are still missing today,” Noah said.
“On the Pacific Island of Tarawa, we did the three largest recoveries of MIAs since WWII in three different mass burial settings,” Noah said.
“People would say that’s impossible. All the remains were either buried in these cemeteries, or the families were given options to bring the remains home. Didn’t we go get all of our honored dead, sir?” Bannon asked.
“Well, that’s the popular conundrum is that people would like to think that everything is neat and tidy and elegant as you happily describe the American cemeteries overseas and the ones that are so well kept in America,” Noah commented.
“The simple fact is 19 percent of America’s WWII casualties are still missing today, and that’s a little over 80,000 people,” Noah said.
“In the setting of Tarawa, the Marines fought an incredibly difficult and strenuous 76 hour battle, in which 75 percent of the engaged units, the 8th, 6th and 2nd regiments of the 2nd Marine division, 75 percent of those individuals were killed, wounded or missing,” Noah explained.
Noah explained that after the island had built infrastructure, it resulted in the loss of about half of the buried soldiers’ locations on the island.
“They lost 50 percent of the known buried on the island and so using that information that we recovered from the National Archives, we conducted a 16-year-long project to recover the missing on the island of Tarawa,” Noah continued.
Noah explained that the CCP’s influence on the Republic of Kiribass has prevented them from continuing their work to recover the remains of American soldiers on the island of Tarawa.
“The Chinese Communist Party is quite entrenched in the Republic of Kiribass and they have sought and successfully been able to deny our work visas from being renewed. So, we haven’t been able to be out doing the work that we have done on Tarawa for the last 16 years for about a year-and-a-half now,” Noah said.
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