A 17-year-old boy sustained burns at the Nagasaki Station rail yard, approximately 2.5 km from the hypocentre of the Nagasaki atomic bomb. As the burns healed, heavy scar tissue appeared.

 　　　　　　　　　　Undisclosed photos of Japanese 　　　　　　　A-bomb survivors

　　　U.S. Atomic Bomb Surveys

The National Archives College Park, Maryland

Februray 22, 2024

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FE0-47-70140  13 DECEMBER 1946

"BURNS OF ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVOR HEAL WITH HEAVY SCAR FORMATION

THIS 17 YEAR OLD BOY SUSTAINED BURNS WHEN AT THE NAGASAKI R.R. STATION

ABOUT 2.5 KM FROM THE GROUND CENTER AT THE TIME OF THE EXPLOSION. HEAVY SCAR TISSUE APPEARED AS THE BURNS HEALED. HEAVY SCAR TISSUE ALSO

OCCURRED LATER, HOWEVER, ON HIS LEFT THIGH WERE SKIN WAS REMOVED TO GRAFT A BURNED AREA.

PHOTOGRAPHER & DR. HENSHAW

RELEASED FOR PUBLICATION

BUREAU OF PUBLIC RELATIONS

WAR DERARTMENT, WASHINTON.

by Signal Corps U.S.Army

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Atomic Bomb Casualties