Friday, April 26, 2024

At the end of the Pacific War, a 21-year-old girl was at the Mitsubishi Ohashi plant in Nagasaki when the Nagasaki atomic bomb was dropped, and the U.S. military examined scar tissue that had grown into a burn on the victim's right neck and face.

 Undisclosed photos of Japanese    

      A-bomb survivors

   U.S. Atomic Bomb Surveys

The National Archives College Park, Maryland

Feburay 22, 2024

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SC-273295

487

FEC-47-70148

10 DECENBER 194646

THICK SCARS PRESENT IN BURNS SUSTAINED BY NAGASAKI ATOMIC BOMB SUVIVOR.


GIRL, AGE 21, WAS AT THE MITSUBISHI OHASHI FACTORY AT NAGASAKI AT THE TIME OF THE ATOMIC BOMB EXPLOSION- ABOUT 0.9 RM. FROM THE GROUND CENTER, BURNS ON CHEEK HEALED WITH THICK SCAR "ISSUE WHICH WAS EXCISED AND A SKIM GRAFT APPLIED

ON 8 OCT. 1946 BUT HEAVY SCAR TISSUE HAS RECURRED AT THE SAME PLACE.


PHOTOGRAPHER-DR. HENSHAW


RELEASED FOR PUBLICATION

BUREAU OF PUBLIC RELATION

 

Photograp WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON


PAR RELATIONS 4468

Photogaraphy by Signal Corps U.S.Army 487


Atomic Bombing Casualities

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A boy exposed to the Nagasaki atomic bomb is being treated for contractures and skin grafts on his lower extremities, an after effect of the burns. The mother of the child's back also developed keloids from burns on her face and upper extremities.

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