STOP #17 JAPANESE SUPPORT COMPLEX The complex that stands before you are the remains of the (from left to right): Torpedo Workshop, Oxygen Generating Plant, Fuel Storage Building, and the Main Power Plant. The area south of this complex was the Japanese cantonment area that included an administration building, a hospital, and barracks for the Japanese military personnel garrisoned on Roi-Namur. Most of those buildings were wood and did not survive the battle or U.S. rebuilding on the island.
The Fourth Marine Division Association has erected a plaque, which lists those Americans who paid the ultimate sacrifice in this battle to defeat Imperial Japan. Namur was officially declared secure at 1418 (2:18 P.M.) on February 2, 1944, after two and one-half days of fighting. American losses on Roi-Namur included 190 Marines killed in action or from wounds received; another 547 Marines were wounded. Japanese losses included 3,472 killed in action. Fifty-one Japanese were captured along with 40 Korean laborers.