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A Nagasaki atomic bomb survivor with burn scars who was exposed to the bomb about 1 kilometer from the hypocenter in Nagasaki, where heavy scar tissue formed extensively.

           Undisclosed photos of Japanese    

      A-bomb survivors

   U.S. Atomic Bomb Surveys

The National Archives College Park, Maryland

Feburay 22, 2024

     SC-273294 

        






















    




SC-273294

EBC-47-70147 487

10 DECEMBER 1946

NAGASAKI ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVOR NOW RETAINS HEAVY SCARS FROM BURNS.

TAMA YAMADA

SUSTAINED BURNS

WHEN ABOUT 1 KM FROM THE GROUND CENTER AT NAGASAKI. 

THE BURNS HEALED FOLLOWED BY EXTENSIVE FORMATION OF HEAVY SCAR TISSUE. SHE ALSO LOST ALL OF SCALP AND AXILLARY HAIR, THE SCALP HAIR.

NOW HAVING RETURNED BUT NOT AXILLARY HAIR. ONE OF THREE OTHERS PERSONS WITH HER DIED.

PHOTOGRAPHER-DR. HENSHAW

RELEASED FOR PUBLICATION

BUREAU OF PUBLIC RELATIONS WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON

Photogaraphy by Signal Corps U.S.Army 14468

Atomic Bomb, Casualties


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