World War II Is Still Killing People in the Pacific

Angry Planet

Matthew Gault

War, Politics, Conflict, Government, History, News

4.3 • 882 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

World War II is still killing people. Unexploded ordnance, the remnants of globe spanning conflict, litters the fields of Europe and the waters of the Pacific. The world spends a lot of money and time cleaning up UX in Europe and helping its victims. In the Pacific? Well, there it’s a different story. Especially in the Solomon Islands.

Thomas Heaton is a reporter for Civil Beat and the author of its ‘Lethal Legacy’ series, which focuses on the devastation World War II is still wreaking in the Pacific.

Civil Beat’s Lethal Legacy series.

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0:12.0	Hello and welcome to angry planet.
0:14.0	I'm Matthew Gault.
0:15.0	And I'm Jason Fields.
0:17.0	World War II is still killing people.
0:20.0	U.S.
0:21.0	The remnants of globe-spaining conflict litters the fields of Europe and the waters of the Pacific.
0:27.0	The world spends a lot of money and time cleaning up UX in Europe and helping its victims in the Pacific. Well, there it's a different story, especially in the Solomon Islands.
0:37.3	Thomas Heaton is a reporter for Civil Beat and the author of its lethal legacy series
0:41.2	which focuses on the devastation World War II is still wreaking Lethal Legacy
0:44.4	in the Pacific.
0:45.8	Sir, thank you so much for coming on Dengard Planet and talking to us about this.
0:49.6	Thank you for having me. It's a pleasure to be here.
0:55.0	So you're you've got a kind of a four-part series and then some follow-ups. That's what lethal legacy is.
0:58.0	It's civil beat and I encourage everyone to go to civil beat and read this online. It's really excellent reporting.
1:05.2	And it focuses on the solemn islands.
1:07.7	So can you kind of tell us where that is
1:09.6	and describe the place for us? Sure. So the Solon Islands is in the South Pacific.
1:16.0	If we are to consider what region it's in, it's in Melanesia.
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