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Rongelapese while away time with card game on tank deck of LST

Harding Fruitt, chief cook of TLST 618, gives cookies to small passengers

The cookies disappeared rapidly

One of school children who were given ride from Ejit to Kwajalein, so they could stay at Ebeye, thanks Harold N. Berg, master of TLST 618

Approaching Rongelap via TLST 618

Ebeye residents enroute via LCU to Kwajalein, where they boarded LST for Rongelap

A small child is helped off LCU that took her from Ebeye to Kwajalein

A last goodbye is waved as TLST 618 moves away from Kwajalein dockside

Lieutenant-Commander Nicholas A. Mark, USN, Kwajalein project officer for the Rongelap repatriation, distributes toys given the Rongelap children by his son Kevin, age 6

Aerial shot of LST at Rongelap. Most of village is to right, beyond beach

Marshallese at rail of LST, waiting to go ashore

AEC bulldozer builds sand causeway to bow doors of LST

AEC truck leaving LST

Rongelapese stream ashore from LST at Rongelap

Marshallese leaving LST

Children at play on Rongelap beach

Kalal, council member, works on his boat after arrival at Rongelap

[Mrs. D.H. Nucker, wife of the High Commissioner, (left) and Ms. Leola Tise, secretary to the Secretary of the Interior. On the beach at Rongelap.]

[0355 - Rongelap Atoll, Marshall Islands]

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[0365 - Rongelap Atoll, Marshall Islands]