The Bunkers of Roi Namur (D70) Photo Gallery by no body at pbase.com

The Bunkers of Roi Namur (D70)

WW2; WWII; Marshall Islands
Kwajalein Atoll, World War 2 battle sight in Western Pacific;
Operation Flintlock; the battle of Roi Namur

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Kwajalein Atoll on old sounding chart.	For the WW2 Buffs.	Roi Namur Satellite Image Now
NADINE POINT	DSC_3064BunkerNorthFxSh2Sm.jpg	DSC_3102BunkerSunsetFxSh2Sm.jpg
DSC_3069_ptFxCloudsShSm.jpg	DSC_3100bunkersunsetFxSh2Sm.jpg	DSC_3107BunkerSunset3FxSh2Sm.jpg
DSC_3306bench5FxSh2Sm.jpg	DSC_4291BenchNorthFxSh_Sm.jpg	DSC_4293BunkerNcoastFxSh_Sm.jpg
STOP #6 PFC RICHARD ANDERSON	bunker fern	cammand
DSC_3941NPanoBunkerWTP_FxSh2_1Qtr.jpg	DSC_8731BunkerFxSh2_Sm.jpg	Pano NorthPointWest 1Qtr
PanoNorthCove1Qtr	DSC_3289NorthBunkerFxSh2_33Pct.jpg	DSC_3577NCoveRuinsFxSh2_33Pct.jpg
DSC_3606CoveRuinsFxSh2_Sm.jpg	DSC_3653NCovePanoFxSh2_33Pct.jpg	DSC_3877LagoonPillboxesFxSh2_Sm.jpg
DSC_4277AmmoBunkerFxSh2_Sm.jpg	DSC_4280AmmoBunkerFxSh2_Sm.jpg	North Blockhouse
DSC_4469NBunkerFxSh2_Sm.jpg	DSC_4472NorthSideBunkerFxSh2_Sm.jpg	DSC_4477NorthsideBunkerFxSh2_Sm.jpg
DSC_4479NorthsideBunkerFxSh2_Sm.jpg	DSC_4582CommandersHQFxSh2_Sm.jpg	DSC_4584CommandersHQFxSh2_Sm.jpg
DSC_4588CommandersHQFxSh2_Sm.jpg	DSC_4592CommandersHQFxSh2_Sm.jpg	DSC_4594CommandersHQFxSh2_Sm.jpg
DSC_4598CommandersHQFxSh2_Sm.jpg	DSC_4603CommandersHQFxSh2_Sm.jpg	DSC_4604CommandersHQFxSh2_Sm.jpg
DSC_4606ComandersHQFxSh2_Sm.jpg	DSC_4615CentralBunkersFxSh2_Sm.jpg	JAPANESE SUPPORT CMPLX
DSC_4618CentralBunkersFxSh2_Sm.jpg	JAPANESE SUPPORT CMPLX	JAPANESE SUPPORT CMPLX
DSC_4637JailHouseFxSh2_Sm.jpg	JAPANESE SUPPORT CMPLX	STOP #17 JAPANESE SUPPORT CMPLX
DSC_4608CommandersFxSh2_Sm.jpg	JAPANESE SUPPORT CMPLX	DSC_4661EastBunkerFxSh2_Sm.jpg
DSC_4664EastBunkerFxSh2_Sm.jpg	Small pillbox near Admin center.	DSC_5164EastBunkerFxSh2_Sm.jpg
DSC_5166EastBunkerFxSh2_Sm.jpg	DSC_5169EastBunkerFxSh2_Sm.jpg	NADINE POINT
DSC_5174EastBunkerFxSh2_Sm.jpg	DSC_5177EastBunkerFxSh2_Sm.jpg	DSC_5180EastBunkerPanoFxSh2_1Qtr.jpg
DSC_5185EastBunkerFxSh2_Sm.jpg	DSC_5189EastBunkerFxSh2_Sm.jpg	DSC_5190EastBunkerFxSh2_Sm.jpg
DSC_5194JungleBunkerFxSh2_Sm.jpg	DSC_5197JungleBunkersFxSh2_Sm.jpg	DSC_5201JungleBunkersFxSh2_Sm.jpg
DSC_5202JungleBunkerFxSh2_Sm.jpg	DSC_5205JungleBunkersFxSh2_Sm.jpg	DSC_5208JungleBunkerFxSh2_Sm.jpg
DSC_5212JungleBunkersFxSh2_Sm.jpg	JungleBunker	DSC_5220JungleBunkerFxSh2_Sm.jpg
DSC_5222JungleBunkerFxSh2_Sm.jpg	DSC_5235JungleBunkersFxSh2_Sm.jpg	DSC_5238JungleBunkersFxSh2_Sm.jpg
JungleBunker	JungleBunkerSunset	DSC_5244JungleBunkerFxSh2_Sm.jpg
DSC_5251JungleBunkerFxSh2_Sm.jpg	DSC_5254JunglePathFxSh2_Sm.jpg	DSC_5255JungleBunkersFxSh2_Sm.jpg
STOP #10 MARINE ADVANCE	DSC_5261PillBoxesLagoonFxSh2_33Pct.jpg	SALLY POINT
DSC_5281PillboxesSouthFxSh2_Sm.jpg	DSC_5285SouthPillboxesFxSh2_Sm.jpg	DSC_5292PillboxPanoFxSh2_33Pct.jpg
DSC_5312LAgoonSunsetFxSh2_33Pct.jpg	DSC_5325SouthLagoonPanoFxSh2_25Pct.jpg	For more information
DSC_5348SunsetPillboxesFxSh2_Sm.jpg	DSC_0447AmmoBunkerFxSh2_Sm.jpg	DSC_4200OldGunsFxSh2_Sm.jpg
DSC_4210OldGunsFxSh2_Sm.jpg	DSC_1386NBunkerFxNrSh2_33.jpg	DSC_1405N_BunkerPanoFxShNr_25.jpg
Blockhouse command posts	STOP #11 NADINE POINT	NADINE POINT
STOP #12 SALLY POINT	SALLY POINT	STOP #13 AMMUNITION STORAGE BLDG
AMMUNITION STORAGE	DSC_3239Stop13FxSh2_Sm.jpg	AMMUNITION STORAGE
DSC_3251Stop13FxSh2_25.jpg	DSC_3255Stop13FxSh2_Sm.jpg	AMMUNITION STORAGE
DSC_3275Stop13FxSh2_Sm.jpg	DSC_3285TorpedoPondFxSh2_33.jpg	Torpedo Pond
DSC_8257FxShWeb.jpg	DSC_0091FxShWeb.jpg	DSC_0089FxShWeb.jpg
DSC_0454ClFxShFxShweb.jpg	DSC_1160FxShweb.jpg	DSC_1161FxShweb.jpg
DSC_1183FxShPanoweb.jpg	Blockhouse looking east	DSC_1215FxShweb.jpg
DSC_1229FxShweb.jpg	DSC_1234FxShweb.jpg	DSC_1947FxShweb.jpg
DSC_1948FxShweb.jpg	DSC_1951FxShweb.jpg	DSC_1952FxShweb.jpg
DSC_1954FxShPcweb.jpg	DSC_1954FxShweb.jpg	DSC_1956FxShweb.jpg
DSC_1959FxShweb.jpg	DSC_1962FxShweb.jpg	DSC_1964FxShweb.jpg
DSC_1966FxShweb.jpg	DSC_1969FxShweb.jpg	JAPANESE AIR HEADQRTRS
DSC_1973FxShweb.jpg	DSC_1975FxShweb.jpg	DSC_1979Fxhweb.jpg
DSC_1981FxShweb.jpg	JAPANESE AIR HEADQRTRS	DSC_2000FxShweb.jpg
DSC_2005FxShweb.jpg	DSC_2012FxShweb.jpg	DSC_2014FxShweb.jpg
DSC_2089FxShweb.jpg

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T Van Hooser		16-Feb-2017 15:17
Nice photos. I am old time Roi Rat going back many years when Global Associates managed the facilities. Looking back the assignment was great. Learned to swim and snorkel got into a great Karate club and daily work out kept me in shape.

Guest		10-Nov-2013 01:31
My Dad Weldon Davis was with CASU 20 US Navy & was on Roi during the war. The ammunition dump was bombed while he was there & one man was killed then. The pics I have seen taken during the war show nothing but sand & palm trees with a few huts & fox holes. TY for the pics.

Guest		11-Mar-2010 19:58
Hi Ray, Gene - My grandfather was stationed on Roi Namur in 1944 - Leroy Johnson, Grandmother said he was in ops and helped run the airfield for the Navy. If you have any memories to share please let me know. Thanks, Jeff jeff@gusbike.com

Ray N. Norris		23-May-2009 18:54
I arrived on Namur early in 1944 from Tarawa. My Squadron, VMF-N-532, ran Night-fighter coverage from Roi at that time. The islands were completely denuded of vegetation, unlike your photographs. Your most meaningful photograph to me was the aerial image of Roi-Namur, because it was at Roi-Namur that the Pacific Fleet assembled prior to departure for the invasion of Saipan. Thank you for the website and photographs--from an eighty-five year old veteran of the campaign. Ray Norris, VMF-N-532, Staff Sgt.

JACK TOMCHO		03-Jun-2008 13:59
My uncle John D. Flannery cpl died on the island. Any information regarding him or the action would be helpful. Thank you for the pictures, brings me closer to him

Zolt�n Balogh		31-Mar-2008 08:12
What a lovely gallery, great work!

Guest		12-Sep-2007 20:03
My Father, PFC Walter Bryant was in the invasion force of Feb 1st. Roi-Namur was his fist landing but, he went onto Guam, in the first wave and also turned 21, and then Okinawa.

Norman Wray		10-Jul-2007 03:23
My father was in Special Weapons Company, 4th Tank Battalion, 4th Marine Division, and was part of the invasion force that took the islands Feb 1-2, 1944. When he was alive, he told me of coming ashore on Namur next to a burning Japanese radio building that had "a couple hundred" dead Japanese in and around it. I've seen the building in photos taken during the battle, but I don't recognize it here. My father was a 2nd Lt. with a heavy machine gun platoon, and he described putting his gun crews in place around bunkers and directing their fire, then having to run up to the bunkers himself and toss grenades in. I wonder which ones he attacked ? This is really eerie. Beautiful and eerie.

Norman Wray		10-Jul-2007 02:34
My father was in Special Weapons Company, 4th Tank Battalion, 4th Marine Division, and was part of the invasion force that took the islands Feb 1-2, 1944. When he was alive, he told me of coming ashore on Namur next to a burning Japanese radio building that had "a couple hundred" dead Japanese in and around it. I've seen the building in photos taken during the battle, but I don't recognize it here. My father was a 2nd Lt. with a heavy machine gun platoon, and he described putting his gun crews in place around bunkers and directing their fire, then having to run up to the bunkers himself and toss grenades in. I wonder which ones he attacked ? This is really eerie. Beautiful and eerie.

Guest		23-May-2007 02:11
These pictures are absolutely amazing. My father, AMM Nicholas Manarevic,was stationed there with USN Aircorps(?), Casu 20 from 1943-1944. Did anyone here looking at these pictures know him? He died 26 years ago and the pictures he left were few and in black & white. I'm sorry that I never knew more about this period in his life. JoAnne Fowler, Montvale, NJ

Guest		23-May-2007 02:07
These pictures are absolutely amazing. My father, AMM Nicholas Manarevic,was stationed there with USN Aircorps(?), Casu 20 from 1943-1944. Did anyone here looking at these pictures know him? He died 26 years ago and the pictures he left were few and in black & white. I'm sorry that I never knew more about this period in his life. JoAnne Fowler, Montvale, NJ

Gene French, Lt Cmdr USNR		11-Feb-2007 03:57
I was station and flew off of Roi-Namur for 7 months in 1944 thes picture brin to mind my tine spent there. I still have many color slides taken at that time ad well as some taken by a ftirnd of mine in 2004. Thanks for this web site.

Gene French, Lt Cmdr USNR		11-Feb-2007 03:56
I was station and flew off of Roi-Namur for 7 months in 1944 thes picture brin to mind my tine spent there. I still have many color slides taken at that time ad well as some taken by a ftirnd of mine in 2004. Thanks for this web site.

Bill Morgan		22-Sep-2005 01:19
I visited the island in 1970 and remember many of these bunkers. This web site brought back lots of memories

Jim Blake		02-Jun-2005 12:49
Beautiful work! I spent a couple of years there in the early 1980s and the pictures look better than I can recall by memory.

cjm2001		01-Apr-2005 02:09
Great pictures No Body! Got any of Chuuk?

Guest		22-May-2004 12:12
Excellent pictures. Good composition.

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