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Even after the burns he suffered from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima had healed, Jinpei Terahama still had scars on his body as of April 15th 1947, when he was treated at Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital.

            Undisclosed photos of Japanese

Atomic-bomb survivors

U.S. Atomic Bomb Surveys

The National Archives College Park, Maryland

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SC-298046 

14819 (FEO-47-73148)

5 APRIL 1947

HIROSHIMA ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVOR RETAINS SCARS FROM INJURIES:

JINPE TERAVAMA RETAINS SCARS AFTER HEALING OF BORNS FROM ATOMIC BOMB EXPLOSION AT HIROSHIMA. HE WAS SEEN AT THE RED CROSS HOSPITAL THERE.

PHOTOGRAPHER-BLOCK

(Atomic Bomb Casualties)

RELEASED FOR PUBLICATION, PUBLIC INFORMATION DIVISION,

WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON U.S. Army

Photograph by Signal Corps US.Army


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