A boy exposed to the Nagasaki atomic bomb is being treated for contractures and skin grafts on his lower extremities, an after effect of the burns. The mother of the child's back also developed keloids from burns on her face and upper extremities.

非公開の日本原爆被爆者の写真

ーアメリカ軍原爆調査団ー

アメリカ国立公文書館 2024年2月22日

(The National Archives College Park, Maryland) 

SC-273300

Sc. 273300 

487

FEC-47-70144

17 DECEMBER 1946

* CHILD BEING TREATED FOR SEQUELAR OF ATOMIC BOMB BURNS: "

CHILD WAS ON ITS MOTHERS BACK.

AT TIME OF THE ATOMIC BOMB EXPLOSION AT NAGASAKI, SEVERAL CONTRACTURES RESULTED FROM BURNS OF LEGS OF CHILD. 

THESE HAVE NOW BEEN TREATED WITH SKIN GRAFTS.

PHOTOGRAPHER: DR. HENSHAW

RELEASED FOR PUBLICATION

BUREAU OF PUBLIC RELATIONS

WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON

Atomic Bomb Casualties

Photograph by Signal Corps U.S. Army

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