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At the time, Hiroshima’s population was approximately 300,000. The atomic bomb immediately killed 80,000 and injured 35,000 more. By the end of 1945, 60,000 more people had died as a result of ...
Yoshito Matsushige (松重 美人, Matsushige Yoshito, January 2, 1913 – January 16, 2005) was a Japanese photojournalist who survived the dropping of the atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 and took five photographs on the day of the bombing in Hiroshima, the only photographs taken that day within Hiroshima that are known.
On August 6, 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima -- and newly revealed photos shed light on the preparations for the attack. On August 6, 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 21:53, 25 October 2013: 780 × 546 (209 KB): Jaybear: Original photo taken with handwriting text in upper left corner; little retouching: rotating by 0.4 deg clockwise; cropped to mod-8 sizes; upper 3px border lines adjusted with nearby content; lower right white corner (of about 1/2 of 16x16px) retouched...
Hiroshima Branch of Sumitomo Bank after the bombing. The Human Shadow Etched in Stone was at the steps, near the person standing at the entrance. The view toward the east from Hiroshima Chamber of Commerce and Industry . The white building in the center is the main office of Geibi Bank, and the building on the right is the Hiroshima Branch of ...
The Target Committee nominated five targets: Kokura (now Kitakyushu), the site of one of Japan's largest munitions plants; Hiroshima, an embarkation port and industrial center that was the site of a major military headquarters; Yokohama, an urban center for aircraft manufacture, machine tools, docks, electrical equipment and oil refineries ...
Distributing the photos called O'Donnell's depression to worsen, and he purposefully suppressed some of the most gruesome photos from publication. [3] In 1995, controversy surrounded O'Donnell's work as the National Air and Space Museum prepared to exhibit the Enola Gay, the B-29 that bombed Hiroshima. His images intended to depict the ...
Atomic cloud over Hiroshima after "Little Boy" is dropped on the city. On August 6, 1945, a gun-type nuclear bomb, Little Boy, was dropped on Hiroshima from a special B-29 Superfortress named Enola Gay, flown by Col. Paul Tibbets. It was the first use of atomic weapons in combat. 70,000 were killed instantly; 30,000 more would die by the end of ...