Friday, June 28, 2024

In September 1945, after the Hiroshima atomic bombing, a nursing assistant tended to a child lying under a futon with burns on his head in the ruins of a makeshift hospital in a bank building, while his mother looked on.

       

          Undisclosed photos of Japanese

        A-bomb survivors

   U.S. Atomic Bomb Surveys

The National Archives College Park, Maryland

          February 22, 2024

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TR-15623

U.S.NAVY  No. 473737

SC-473737 Sept.1945.

SUBJECT:

CAPTION:

NAVY PHOTOGRAPHER PICTURES SUFFERING AND RUINS THAT RESULTED FROM ATOM BOMB BLAST IN HIROSHIMA, JAPAN.

NURSE'S AIDE AND MOTHER ADMINISTER AID TO VICTIM IN MAKESHIFT HOSPITAL IN BANK BUILDING.

LOCATION: HIROSHIMA, JAPAN

PHOTOGRAPHER:MILLER, WAYNE, LT.

TAKEN BY (UNIT)

LOCAL NO: TR 15623

CLASSIFICATION RELEASED



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