The small Bikini community had developed a close in-group Teeling during the years of relative isolation prior to the coming of the white man and found satisfaction and security in their closely knit personal relationships and communal life. Worid War TI and the Bikini People The Bikini people were directly affected by World War II in that three of their young men who had been attending the Japanese government school on Jaluit Atoll were drafted as laborers and sent to Enewetak Atoll. They were later killed there in the American bombing and bombardment of that huge and important Japanese military base. Soldiers at Bikini, however; wireless manned the ammurition stores. and the Bikini in areas where heavy fignting occurred. the such other Marshallese, from Japan with the consumer goods and also Little damage was done to Bikini, people were much better off than Marshallese did station operators These men were all killed by American bombing and shelling. however, There were only six Japanese as Jaluit, The Bikini from resultant Enewetak and Kwajalein, the people suffered as cut-off of supply cessation of imports exportation of copra. lines of necessary Communications were re- stored and wartime hardships were alleviated when the American armed forces serious 9009071 captured the Marshall Islands hardships of the Bikini early in 1944. people were yet to come The however.