[Milsurplus] Re: Veddy Interesting but....

[Hue Miller]

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> There's a cover art'l in Radio News 10/47 on Drones.  Shows
> "radio desk" bolted to Shangri-La's flight deck as F6F takes off.
> Goes on to say how they successfully flew thru Op'n Crossroads
> mushroom cloud... but one ran away & was caught 53 mi.s later &
> brought back to a safe landing on Roi island.
>   M

Marty, i have a photo of a Marines TBX station on the sands of Roi.
Curiousity piqued me to look up Roi Namur.
At this site, interesting story:

http://www.fightingfourth.com/namur.htm

"...the two islands of Roi-Namur were hardly more than over grown sand spits.
Roi measured 1200 by 1250 yards at its widest points; Namur was 800 by 900 
yards - neither island a square mile in size! An estimated 3,000 enemy troops 
were there to defend them."

There were two ammo dump explosions during the proceedings- one theirs,
one ours - so the islands were quite a mess. Now Roi seems to be the
"residential, recreational, and shopping area" for the missile tracking operations
on Namur. I think it would be a bit spooky, living on top a battlefield.
-Hue