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English: Moving Day, Bikini to Rongerik: On March 7, 1946, the population of Bikini was moved to Rongerik in LST 1108, a total of 161 persons making the trip. Rongerik had been the first choice of nine of the eleven family heads, called alaps, as the new home for the evacuees. The islanders are unloading the Pandanus they gathered on Bikini Island to thatch the roofs of their new homes on Rongerik Island.
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Source Operation Crossroads - The official pictorial record, page 21
Author Joint Task Force 1
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