Friday, June 28, 2024

In September 1945, after the Hiroshima atomic bombing, a nursing assistant tended to a child lying under a futon with burns on his head in the ruins of a makeshift hospital in a bank building, while his mother looked on.

 


    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-473737



















TR-15623

U.S.NAVY  No. 473737

SC-473737 Sept.1945.

SUBJECT:

CAPTION:

NAVY PHOTOGRAPHER PICTURES SUFFERING AND RUINS THAT RESULTED FROM ATOM BOMB BLAST IN HIROSHIMA, JAPAN.

NURSE'S AIDE AND MOTHER ADMINISTER AID TO VICTIM IN MAKESHIFT HOSPITAL IN BANK BUILDING.

LOCATION: HIROSHIMA, JAPAN

PHOTOGRAPHER:MILLER, WAYNE, LT.

TAKEN BY (UNIT)

LOCAL NO: TR 15623

CLASSIFICATION RELEASED



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The boy was admitted to a hospital in Nagasaki after the atomic bombing. Even five months after the explosion on August 9, 1945, he was still suffering from severe burns and keloids (Bring Back the Human Being, 1982).

    The boy was admitted to a hospital in Nagasaki after the atomic bombing. Even five months after the explosion on August 9, 1945, he suff...