Sunday, February 23, 2025

The 25-year-old woman still had a deep scar on the spot where she had received a laceration from flying glass when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on April 23, 1947.

                        Undisclosed photos of Japanese

Atomic-bomb survivors

U.S. Atomic Bomb Surveys

The National Archives College Park, Maryland

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(FEC-47-73513)14868

23 APRIL 1947

ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVORS RETAIN SCARS:

YOSHIE AMAHA, AGE 25, RETAINS THICK SCARS AT LOCATIONS WHERE LACERATIONS OCCURRED FROM FLYING GLASS AT THE TIME OF THE ATOMIC BOMB EXPLOSION AT HIROSHIMA. SHE PS BEING TREATED AT THE TOKYO IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL.

RELEASED FOR PUBLICATION

PUBLIC INFORMATION DIVISION WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON

Atomic Bomb Casualties

Photograph by Signal Corps U.S. Army


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