Sailing and exploring War RELICS of TAROA The World War 2 WRECKS and RELICS of TAROA After a long check in, we were more than ready to get off DT and start exploring Taroa. The island had played a big role during the Second World War. The Japanese built two runways and stationed over 3000 troops on the islands. There are a lot of reminders of this occupation, with spent shells, live ammunition and rusted guns littering the shore line. Inland there are wrecked airplanes and remains of bunkers and buildings. Footage from March 2020 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ☕️ Want to Buy us a Coffee? Support our videos: https://ko-fi.com/sailingdoubletrouble 🌎 Blogs and updates on the website: http://sailingdoubletrouble.com/ 💁🏼‍♀️ Photos and real time stuff here: https://www.facebook.com/sailingdoubletrouble/ 📷 Random Travel Pics and updates: https://www.instagram.com/sailingdoubletrouble/ 👉Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/SailingDoubleTrouble?sub_confirmation=1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 👩‍❤️‍👨About us : Hello and welcome to our channel! We are Jo and Rob and we are here to share our sailing adventures with you. In 2016, inspired by the likes of ‘Delos’, ‘Sailing La Vagabonde’ and ‘Gone with The Wynns’, we sold up everything we owned and bought our 40ft, Fountaine Pajot ‘Lipari 41 Evo’ sailing catamaran ‘Double Trouble’. We had no sailing experience whatsoever, so the past few years have been a huge learning curve. We thought it might be fun to document our travels for anyone thinking of following a similar lifestyle. So far we have visited 7 different countries and sailed over 13,000 nautical miles. We have had many unique experiences that would not have been possible in our prior life and we don’t regret a second. We're both super keen on protecting our precious environment, so amongst other things, we both follow a plant based diet. You wont find any fishing footage on this channel! Subscribe now and join us as we continue our salty travels around the world. https://www.youtube.com/c/SailingDoubleTrouble?sub_confirmation=1 👏Credits: Thanks to 'Shure ' microphones for voiceover sound. 🎼Music: DT Theme tune - 'Happy' by MBB https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/g6swHZbWtRc 🎧Other Music: Epidemic Sound Library The WW2 WRECKS and RELICS of TAROA EP71 || Marshall Islands || North Pacific #sailingdoubletrouble MaloelapAtoll

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yeah apparently we were deemed as

unclean we couldn't come ashore but

we're okay now allegedly

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after three days on board trying to sort

out permission to come ashore we finally

made it into the village

we met the new mayor who would arrive

from majoro the previous day and he

welcomed us to the island

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we were given drinking coconuts and

invited to have a look inside the

classroom of the school

where the students were sitting an end

of term test

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we left them to their studies and set

off to explore making some new friends

along the way

a beautiful island a lovely friendly

village as well

julie's surrounded by the kids up there

and it's just lovely look at her

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with our mini tour guides in tow we

began to uncover the wrecks and relics

of world war ii

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after world war one the marshall islands

were given to the japanese by

the league of nations but it wasn't

until they withdrew from the league in

1935 that malolap was first used by the

japanese military

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they began to secretly develop strategic

sites around the country

the malolap base was one of the most

developed with hangars

service shops barracks bunkers and guns

of every description

during world war ii the usa finally got

wind of what was going on and launched

two attacks

the second and biggest began in 1943

and lasted two years during which time

the malolap air base and surrounding

facilities were bombed with over 8

million

pounds of bombs and artillery rounds

just walking back through the bush been

trying to find an old airplane

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we've lost the trail we're going to go

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back

there's just stuff everywhere the amount

of concrete that they must have brought

in

to build all this stuff is just

phenomenal

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absolutely

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a second day of exploring was called for

so here we are back on shore and

what are you up to mr b daisy is coming

out daisy the new drone

we're gonna see how high we can get it

without it being boofed away by the wind

she's very tiny compared to darren isn't

she

this is daisy everybody unfortunately

because the airstrip is still in fairly

regular use by local flights we weren't

allowed to fly daisy here

never mind we were off to find more

wrecks

this time it was the wreck of a crashed

bomber

you think this is the upside down

cockpit and the thing on top here is

probably where they

carried a bomb

just laying around in the field

yeah yeah i reckon that's probably the

tail section

that's gonna be the cockpit

it's hard to tell isn't it

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bullet holes in there look

in the wings

it's the landing gear

what we assume is a landing gear

attached to the underside of the wing

there

oh hey all this history just sitting

here randomly

in the middle of this

jungle either that is

we came across another small settlement

and one of the kids was immediately sent

up a tree to fetch us coconuts while we

chatted with the residents

so martial these people were living here

at the same time that this was all the

fort and everything okay

that's why you never want to stand under

a coconut tree

i normally would have volunteered to do

this but you know

i haven't got the right shoes on

within minutes the coconuts were shucked

and handed around and we were off on our

way again

how's your coconut

this time to the northern tip of the

island to a beach scattered with

pillboxes and guns

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so

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towards the end of the war the u.s

forces secretly evacuated all the

marshallese on malola

and the japanese were left alone by the

time the malolap garrison surrendered on

board the destroyer escort wingfield on

september the 6th

1945 the commander of the atoll

ria admiral tamada had lost 2363 of his

men

over 66 percent of the garrison

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needless to say the area is littered

with wrecks

although many have been cut up for the

copper brass and aluminium parts by the

locals

live shells are still scattered around

and ammunition can still be picked up on

the beach

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island is beautiful lush jungle and

coconut trees have reclaimed most of the

island

and the main village is perfectly placed

to overlook the deep blue lagoon

it was lovely to see a thriving

community here

some of the structures left by the

japanese occupation have been made

habitable

but most housing is in the traditional

style with a very welcoming atmosphere

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a stark difference compared to the more

violent history the island has endured

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