Transporting sailboats onto a landing craft
date: label: Date made
content: 1946
name: label: photographer
content: Mydans, Carl
notes: label: Description
content: In July 1946, a joint U.S. Army-Navy operation to test the effect of atom bombs on naval vessels was set in motion: the fourth atom bomb explosion of all time took place in a remote atoll in the Pacific. In order to clear the way for the operation <i>Crossroads</i>, the test site, Bikini Island, needed to be evacuated, its 167 natives relocated. Mydans was sent to the area to document the exodus of the people of Bikini. The story was published by <i>LIFE</i> (Mar 25, 1946).
label: Description
content: Natives of Bikini were required to cart all of their possessions to the U.S. Navy landing craft before being relocated to their new homes on Rongerik Atoll. These canoes were the natives' main mode of transportation.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Marshall Islands: Bikini & Kili, Bikini Atoll
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
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content: Carl Mydans
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0228.113
label: accession number
content: 2005.0228
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0228.113
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 in x 10 in; 20.32 cm x 25.4 cm