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Description Explosion of a torpedo warhead magazine on Namur, Kwajalein Atoll, at 1305 hrs, 1 February 1944, as seen from a U.S. Navy plane. A demolition team of F Company, 24th Marines, led by Lieutenant Saul Stein threw satchel charges into a presumed bunker. However, the building turned out to be a torpedo warhead magazine and the following explosions (one large and two smaller ones) killed 20 U.S. Marines and wounded another 100.
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Source U.S. Marine Corps: The Marshalls: Increasing the Tempo photo [1] [2].
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