at 5:40 a.m. the men of the assault
force climbed down to their waiting
Amtrak's or LVT s 700 of these
amphibious vehicles will take them to
the beaches more than have ever been
used in any island assault hey guys so
we're here at an appellate goon and what
I'm going to try and do now is use the
Phantom and fly up north and try and
locate the LVT from the air when I find
the LVT it will confirm the GPS
coordinates and then we're going to move
on to Phase two where I'm going to get
the kayak and we're going to paddle out
to it dive the LVT and return to shore
so let's get started now with flying the
Phantom
hey guys we're moving into stage two of
finding the LV T in stage one we use the
Phantom to fly out and locate the LV T
now that we know where it is moving on
to stage two
we're going to pump up the clack and
we're going to paddle out to find it
from where we are here on Tanith package
it's about a 1.3 kilometer paddle the
school has just come through that's the
school here so we had a heavy downpour
we waited it out for about 20 minutes
and the schools just passed we're just
waiting for it to move a little bit
further out to sea and then we're going
to set out and do the dive my reason for
wanting to do the LV T is because it's a
it's a site of historic value guys in
all likelihood did lose their lives on
that wreck because it is sunk out in the
middle of the lagoon the chances are
that the guys didn't make it to shore it
would have been sunk by the Japanese who
had their defenses here it is
potentially a war grave and I just want
to document it and show it to everybody
so that we can remember what these guys
did for us 70 odd years ago all right
guys it seems that the school I think
the school has moved on it's it's about
to exit the area of the lagoon so let's
get on the kayak and let's go find this
LVT
okay we think it's one of these dark
patches over here we're gonna anchor
here we're gonna get into have a look
now as Marine LV T's reached the reef
Japanese guns start laying down some
lead
a lot of our Amtrak's get blown up in
the water completely destroyed the
personnel and Amtrak
it was it was a lot rougher than we
thought
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