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Largest of these islands is also called Kwajalein. It is two and a half miles long, a third of a mile wide-about as big as Tarawa's Betio. Some 50 miles north along the beads lies Roi, 7/10 sq. mi.-just large enough for an airfield...
...began two months 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...
North Battle. The Marines captured Roi in a little over 24 hours. As on Betio, the Japs who still lived crawled back at night into pillboxes filled with their own dead. The pillboxes had to be cleaned out again with flamethrowers, blocks of TNT and rocket guns. Namur, separated from Roi by a 200-yd. causeway, was the Japs' last retreat from the Marines...