WEBVTT 00:00.440 --> 00:04.160 mhm . Now , for a transcription made 00:04.160 --> 00:06.960 during the invasion And here is john 00:06.960 --> 00:09.860 cooper . Yeah , 00:12.500 --> 00:15.060 it goes on . Yes . 00:15.440 --> 00:21.800 It 00:21.800 --> 00:24.022 was very common during the battles that 00:24.022 --> 00:26.133 took place on Peleliu and anger where 00:26.133 --> 00:28.356 you would have your naval gunships come 00:28.356 --> 00:30.578 in and they would lay down fire first . 00:30.578 --> 00:32.800 That would give time for the marines to 00:32.800 --> 00:35.022 load up in the transport vehicles . And 00:35.022 --> 00:34.510 then once marines were making their 00:34.510 --> 00:37.300 ways to the islands themselves , that's 00:37.300 --> 00:39.189 when you would have airships come 00:39.189 --> 00:41.360 through and do strafe runs across the 00:41.360 --> 00:43.471 land in order to provide security for 00:43.471 --> 00:45.693 those marines . A lot of those aircraft 00:45.693 --> 00:47.804 that came through and we're doing the 00:47.804 --> 00:49.804 striking room could have left bombs 00:49.804 --> 00:52.670 that we're dealing with . We will start 00:52.680 --> 00:54.402 filing , we'll start the final 00:54.402 --> 00:56.513 bombardment of the beaches before the 00:56.513 --> 01:00.290 troops go in . In the past two weeks 01:00.290 --> 01:02.457 out here , we've been working with the 01:02.457 --> 01:04.679 Norwegian people's aid and the National 01:04.679 --> 01:06.790 Safety Office of Palau to get rid of 01:06.800 --> 01:10.320 1,173 unexploded ordinance items 01:10.330 --> 01:14.150 through very detonation . Mm hmm . Mhm 01:16.840 --> 01:18.900 unexploded ordinance is inherently 01:18.900 --> 01:20.956 dangerous as it is , especially when 01:20.956 --> 01:23.122 you're dealing in certain environments 01:23.122 --> 01:25.450 where deterioration can weed away it . 01:25.840 --> 01:28.290 The fusing systems . The methods that 01:28.290 --> 01:30.580 we can bring to the table to safely 01:30.580 --> 01:33.770 dispose of these U . XO items is far 01:33.770 --> 01:36.103 greater than what's currently available . 01:36.840 --> 01:40.660 Yes ended up 01:40.670 --> 01:42.614 being 17 shots spread out over the 01:42.614 --> 01:45.030 course of two weeks to start off , we 01:45.030 --> 01:46.974 would have the backhoe driver come 01:46.974 --> 01:48.974 through set up the whole . Uh so we 01:48.974 --> 01:50.974 could work out of that for the very 01:50.974 --> 01:53.197 disposal . So while he was busy digging 01:53.197 --> 01:55.308 the hole for us , we had another team 01:55.308 --> 01:57.474 back at the holding site , pretty much 01:57.474 --> 01:58.697 preparing the shots , 01:58.730 --> 02:02.220 determining what was going to be on 02:02.220 --> 02:04.750 each shot and then loading that into 02:04.750 --> 02:06.861 the back of a bongo truck in order to 02:06.861 --> 02:09.860 transport that down to the hole . Yeah 02:10.640 --> 02:11.640 mm . 02:16.640 --> 02:18.529 The days are pretty unforgiving , 02:18.540 --> 02:21.360 however once the rain came it was all 02:21.360 --> 02:22.360 better . 02:27.940 --> 02:28.940 Mhm . 02:34.340 --> 02:38.100 Yeah . Mhm . We're whipping the blocks 02:38.100 --> 02:41.080 to see four because as we're filling 02:41.080 --> 02:43.570 these holes with large amounts of dirt , 02:43.580 --> 02:45.191 we want to ensure that we're 02:45.191 --> 02:47.358 maintaining that contact with C . Four 02:47.358 --> 02:49.640 to C . Four and that we're having high 02:49.640 --> 02:51.751 explosive to high explosive contact . 02:51.840 --> 02:54.050 So when you whip block of C . Four , 02:54.060 --> 02:56.330 essentially getting out about eight ft 02:56.340 --> 02:59.000 of det cord and then you're making 02:59.010 --> 03:01.470 small tight wraps around that block of 03:01.470 --> 03:03.748 C . Four with those little blocks of C . 03:03.748 --> 03:05.914 Four , they'll run out of the hole and 03:05.914 --> 03:08.290 up to our initiation site where we'll 03:08.290 --> 03:10.950 have electric blasting caps set up to 03:10.960 --> 03:12.904 wires and those wires are gonna be 03:12.904 --> 03:14.849 running to our receiver which will 03:14.849 --> 03:16.571 eventually be initiated by our 03:16.571 --> 03:18.682 transmitters on the whole the whole . 03:24.040 --> 03:25.640 Ooh . Yeah . 03:35.170 --> 03:35.590 Okay . 03:41.140 --> 03:42.140 Mhm . 03:53.640 --> 03:57.640 What ? Mhm . Yeah . Yeah . 03:58.040 --> 03:59.040 Mhm . 04:02.940 --> 04:04.884 Working with this project has been 04:04.884 --> 04:07.051 great and then as well as working with 04:07.051 --> 04:09.107 an origin people's aid , they're all 04:09.107 --> 04:11.329 really great people where their hand in 04:11.329 --> 04:13.551 hand loading ordinance digging the pits 04:13.551 --> 04:15.662 and detonating the shots . This was a 04:15.662 --> 04:17.884 great learning experience for everybody 04:17.884 --> 04:20.107 here training . I'm glad and I know all 04:20.107 --> 04:22.107 of the team has been really glad to 04:22.107 --> 04:24.162 have this one on one experience with 04:24.162 --> 04:26.273 with you guys . Get to share a bit of 04:26.273 --> 04:28.551 knowledge names , Christopher , Willis . 04:28.551 --> 04:30.440 I'm the quality assurance quality 04:30.440 --> 04:32.607 control manager for NPR . So these are 04:32.607 --> 04:34.829 old explosives before they thought of a 04:34.829 --> 04:36.884 bit more safer compositions of these 04:36.884 --> 04:39.107 things . A lot of them are not volatile 04:39.107 --> 04:41.218 than extremely hazardous , like toxic 04:41.218 --> 04:42.662 towards the environment . 04:42.662 --> 04:46.440 Being able to clear this island of 04:46.440 --> 04:48.607 these hazardous and dangerous items is 04:48.607 --> 04:50.718 a huge win I think especially for the 04:50.718 --> 04:52.030 Republic of palau . 04:57.680 --> 04:58.680 Yeah . 05:07.640 --> 05:09.940 Yeah . Yeah . 05:12.740 --> 05:14.540 Mhm . Yeah .