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The incendiary raid on Tokyo took a greater toll, but the devastation at Hiroshima was the result of one bomb and one plane. The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima contained a mass of uranium about the size of a baseball.
Colonel Paul Tibbets describes dropping the A-Bomb on Hiroshima August 6, 1945. In the early morning darkness of August 6, 1945 the B-29 "Enola Gay" piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets lifted off the runway at Tinian Island and flew into history.
- Taeko Teramae
- Sachiko Matsuo
- Norimitsu Tosu
- Yoshiro Yamawaki
- Kikue Shiota
- Akiko Takakura
- Hiroyasu Tagawa
- Shoso Kawamoto
- Tsutomu Yamaguchi
Hiroshima survivor Taeko Teramae didn’t realize the full extent of her injuries until her younger brothers started making fun of her appearance. Confused, the 15-year-old asked her parents for a mirror—a request they denied, leading her to surreptitiously track one down on a day they’d left the house. “I was so surprised I found my left eye looked ...
Sometime before the bombing of Nagasaki, 11-year-old Sachiko Matsuo’s father happened upon a leafletdropped by American pilots to warn the city’s residents of an imminent attack. Taking the message seriously, he constructed a makeshift cabin high up on a mountain overlooking Nagasaki and, in the days leading up to the scheduled bombing, implored hi...
Every morning, Norimitsu Tosu’s mother took him and his twin brother on a walk around their Hiroshima neighborhood. August 6 was no different: The trio had just returned from their daily walk, and the 3-year-olds were in the bathroom washing their hands. Then, the walls collapsed, trapping the brothers under a pile of debris. Their mother, who’d br...
The day after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, 11-year-old Yoshiro Yamawaki went out in search of his father, who had failed to return from a shift at the local power station. On the way to the factory, Yamawaki and two of his brothers saw unspeakable horrors, including corpses whose “skin would come peeling off just like that of an ove...
August 6 was “an unimaginably beautiful day” punctuated by a “blinding light that flashed as if a thousand magnesium bulbs had been turned on all at once,” Hiroshima survivor Kikue Shiotalater recalled. The blast trapped 21-year-old Shiota and her 16-year-old sister beneath the remains of their razed house, more than a mile from the bomb’s hypocent...
Decades after the bombing of Hiroshima, the image of a man whose charred fingertips had been engulfed in blue flamesremained imprinted in Akiko Takakura’s memory. “With those fingers, the man had probably picked up his children and turned the pages of books,” the then-88-year-old told the Chugoku Shimbunin 2014. The vision so haunted Takakura that ...
In the spring of 1945, government-mandated evacuations led 12-year-old Hiroyasu Tagawaand his sister to move in with their aunt, who lived a short distance away from Nagasaki, while his parents relocated to a neighborhood close to their workplace in the city center. On the morning of August 9, Tagawa heard what he thought might be a B-29 bomber fly...
Eleven-year-old Shoso Kawamoto was one of some 2,000 children evacuated from Hiroshima’s city center ahead of the August 6 bombing. As he told the Chugoku Shimbunin 2013, he’d been working in a field north of the city alongside other young evacuees when he noticed a white cloud rising in the sky above Hiroshima. That night, caretakers told the grou...
To date, the Japanese government has recognized only one survivorof both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings: naval engineer Tsutomu Yamaguchi, who died in 2010 at age 93. A longtime Nagasaki resident, he’d spent the summer of 1945 on temporary assignment in Hiroshima. August 6 was set to be his last day of work before returning home to his wife an...
- Meilan Solly
Eyewitness Account of Hiroshima. By Father John A. Siemes, professor of modern philosophy at Tokyo's Catholic University. Hiroshima- August 6th, 1945. Up to August 6th, occasional bombs, which did no great damage, had fallen on Hiroshima. Many cities roundabout, one after the other, were destroyed, but Hiroshima itself remained protected.
Aug 6, 2015 · W hen the Japanese surrendered in World War II, the historic news was all but eclipsed by the world-altering event that led up to it: the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, which happened...
In an interview for the United States Strategic Bombing Survey in December 1945, Kaleria Palchikoff Drago, a Russian immigrant living in Japan, gives an eyewitness account of August 6,...
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These "Voice of Hibakusha" eyewitness accounts of the bombing of Hiroshima are from the program HIROSHIMA WITNESS produced by the Hiroshima Peace Cultural Center and NHK, the public broadcasting company of Japan.
