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Crated pigs are loaded in LCVP (personnel boat) at Ejit

Navy personnel boats, loaded with Ejit residents' belongings, start for Uliga, where cargo is loaded on board TLST 618

Ejit woman delivers her canoe. It, with others, was towed to Uliga and loaded on board LST

TLST 618 arriving at Uliga

TLST 618 mooring at Uliga, Ejit in far background (center)

KSTS officer helps Marshallese workers string chicken wire to ship's lifelines on board LST. This was done to safeguard small children on main deck

Ejit boy boards LST, carrying belongings in woven mat

Landing outrigger on board LST

Overall shot of main deck, TLST 618

Movie about to start on tank deck of LST

Same as 4307. (different angle, to exclude non-Marshallese as much as possible)

Mealtime on board LST

Same as 4398

Marshallese girls eating one of meals served in LST

Everyone was provided a bunk, but not all passengers used them

Some passengers passed time embroidering

Lindsay Thompson, chief steward of TLST 618, kept ship as long as passengers wanted to shop

Rongelap ladies relax beneath outrigger canoe

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

Ebeye residents on dock await boat from Kwajalein that took them to LST

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