Place

Kwajalein Atoll

Atoll of the Marshall Islands with a U.S. military base, where the Bikinians lived in tents in 1948 and the Bravo evacuees were taken in 1954.

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Removal of Bikini's inhabitants housed in tents beside the airport, 1948 Scholarship & press 1
Castle Bravo 236 Marshallese and 28 U.S. servicemen were taken there Primary record 2 3

Proof 3 sources

A history of the people of Bikini following nuclear weapons testing in the Marshall Islands: with recollections and views of elders of Bikini Atoll, Health Physics, vol. 73, no. 1 (July 1997), 1997. Scholarship & press
In March of 1948, after two unpleasant years on Rongerik, the Bikinians were transported to Kwajalein Atoll and housed there in tents on a strip of grass beside the airport.
Atomic Energy Commission answers to State Department questions on the Marshallese petition, 9 June 1954 (Foreign Relations of the United States 1952-1954, vol. III, doc. 942), U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, 9 Jun 1954. Primary record
the Commander, Joint Task Force Seven, ordered these Marshallese and United States Weather Personnel evacuated temporarily to Kwajalein Atoll
Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, Final Report, Chapter 12: The Marshallese, U.S. Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments (copy on the U.S. Department of Energy Openness site), 1995. Primary record
Over the next three days, 236 Marshallese were transported by sea and 28 U.S. servicemen were airlifted from a weather station on Rongerik to Kwajelain Atoll, south of the fallout pattern, and then to a U.S. naval base with medical facilities.

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