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...before the attack. In 17 raids by Army and Navy bombers the atoll was plastered with heavy bombs. The actual bombardment from the sea began three days before DDay. Hour after hour battleships and cruisers poured in thousands of rounds of 6-to-16-in. explosives. Roi and adjacent Namur rattled under the weight of 5,000 tons of naval shells...
...Invasion. Then it was time for the foot soldiers to go in. Against Kwajalein on the south, "Terrible" Turner sent troops of Nebraska-born Major General Charles H. Corlett's Seventh Army division, battlewise veterans of Attu. Against Roi and Namur on the north went Nebraska-born Major General Harry Schmidt's new Fourth Marine Division...
...Marines and their artillery landed on Mellu and Boggerlapp, southwest of Roi; then on Ennugarret, Ennumennet and Ennubirr, southeast of it. Thus Roi and Namur were all but surrounded by big guns, land-based and deck-based...
...planes with crosses under their wingtips and swastikas on their tails led and supported Germany's supreme effort (see p. 27). Left behind, beleaguered by the rising German tide, pounded by its heaviest artillery and air bombs were Allied garrisons in forts at Liége, Namur, Sedan, Montmédy, who pounded back desperately at the lava flow of German supply and reinforcement. After the break-through at Sedan, Generalissimo Gamelin issued his last-ditch order...
Canal above Liege and the Meuse below it, slanting across north of Namur to reach the Flanders plain and drive for Louvain and Brussels, the French took action. They sent in their own tank regiments. Around the highway junction of St. Trond one fine May day, and around Gembloux, 100 miles northeast of the Somme where nine British tanks first surprised the Germans 25 years ago, it was reported that 1,500 to 2,000 tanks milled, in scenes which, from the air, looked like a giant's parking lot gone mad. Both sides claimed the best...