What are the details of the battle of Roi Namur February 1 1944?

Answer 1

The Fourth Marine Division's attack at the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall

Islands was named Operation Flintlock and was preceeded by the attack

on 31 January 1944 of the islands of Meliu and Ennuebing to establish an

artillery fire support base. The islands of Roi and Namur were cleared of

their Japanese defenders in just over a day at the cost of 172 lives plus

18 who later died of wounds and 547 WIA. As a footnote to this battle,

Stephen Hopkins, the son of Harry Hopkins the Special Assistant to FDR

was among those killed, as was PFC Jack Brown whose 44 year old father

of the same Company, Corporal Earl Brown fought on.