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Show Heaviest Bambaidraent The bombing and shelling of Roi and Namur is described by observers as the most terrific pounding ever given in support of an amphibious assualt. Taking into account the size of the targets, Robert Trumbull, writing to the New York Times, calls it the heaviest air and sea bombardment the world has ever seen. He reports that more than 5,000 tons of shells and about 200 tons of bombs fell on Roi and Namur in the fifty-three hours preceding the main landing. On Namur where 2,500 Japs lived, and which contained 150 buildings, he reports "there are ruins and nothing more to indicate in-dicate that a sizeable town of concrete buildings was there." |