Saturday, December 28, 2024

Akira Yamaguchi, who was exposed to the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, suffered burns to both forearms on April 8, 1947.

       Undisclosed photos of Japanese

Atomic-bomb survivors

U.S. Atomic Bomb Surveys

The National Archives College Park, Maryland

February 23, 2024 

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8 APRIL 1947

HIROSHIMA ATOMIC BOMS SURVIVOR 

RETAINS SCARS FROM INJURIES:

AKIRA YAMAGUCHI RETAINS HEAVY SCARS FOLLOWING THE HEALING OF BURNS SUSTAINED FROM THE ATOMTO BOMB EXPLOSION AT HIROSHIMA. 

HE WAS SEEN AT THE POST OFFICE THERE.

PHOTOGRAPHER - BLOCK

Atomic Bomb Casualties

RELEASED FOR PUBLICATION, PUBLIC INFORMATION DIVISION,WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON

Photograph by Signal Corps US. ARMY


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