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Carrying Livestock
#7… Two Ejit Island residents carry some livestock to a Navy small craft that took it to TLST 618, for shipment to Rongelap.
Loading a Boat
#8… Residents of Ejit Island, Majuro Atoll, load belongings into a Navy LCVP for reloading into TLST 618, which was berthed at Uliga, two miles away.
Boarding an LCVP
#9… One of the few elderly people who needed assistance boarding boats for repatriation from Ejit to Rongelap in the Marshall Islands, is carried aboard a Navy LCVP.
A Child Packing
#10… At Uliga, Majuro Atoll, a lad about 9 years old climbs the gangway of TLST 618, carrying some of his family’s belongings in a woven mat.
Woman Packing
A MARSHALLESE WOMAN packs up for the return to her home island of Rongelap as an elderly woman peers out of house soon to be vacated. The women were evacuated from their home in March, 1954, when Rongelap was showered with radioactive fallout from…
Children at Play
#20… NATIVE CHILDREN play outside building where native leaders and local Trust Territory representatives confer. The children, here, on the Pacific island of Ebeye, will soon be repatriated to their home island of Rongelap. The island was evacuated…
Richard J. Umhofer
A FINAL BRIEFING is given the natives of the small Pacific island of Rongelap, prior to there repatriation from the island of Ebeye. Richard J. Umhofer, local representative in the Kwjalein-Ebeye area for the Trust Territory’s District Administrator,…
Martin the Translator
A MARSHALLESE NATIVE known only as “Martin” (right) translates the instructions of Richard J. Umhofer, local representative of the District Administrator, Marshall Islands, for native leaders on Ebeye. This was the natives’ final briefing before the…
Elders Listening
NATIVE WOMEN sit on the floor as an interpreter for the representative of the District Administrator, Marshall Islands, answers a question asked by one of the women. They were receiving their final briefing on the Pacific Island of Ebeye, just before…
Curiosity of Children
CHILDREN’S CURIOSITY is aroused as their elders confer with the District Administrator’s Representative on the island of Ebeye in the Marshall Islands. They are preparing for their repatriation to the island of Rongelap which was evacuated when…
