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A GROUP OF BOYS FROM THE HIROSHIMA SECOND MIDDLE SCHOOL, SHOWING PIGMENTATION AND KELOID CAUSED BY THE ATOMIC BOMB DROPPED ON HIRO SHIMA.

Undisclosed photos of Japanese

Atomic-bomb survivors

U.S. Atomic Bomb Surveys

The National Archives College Park, Maryland

                                                                   

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SC-295912,  7 JULY 1947

MEDICAL RECORDS OF ATOMIC BOMB VICTIMS:

A GROUP OF BOYS FROM THE HIROSHIMA SECOND MIDDLE SCHOOL, SHOWING PIGMENTATION ON THEIR FACES CAUSED BY THE ATOMIC BOMB DROPPED ON HIRO SHIMA. PICTURE TAKEN FOR THE ATOMIC BOMB CASUALTY COMMISSION.

PHOTOGRAPHER-SNELL ATOMIC

PHOTOGRAPH BY U.S. ARMY SIGNAL CORPS.

RELEASED FOR PUBLICATION, PUBLIC INFORMATION DIVISION, WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON

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SC-295913

(FEC-47-77497)

7 JULY 1947

MEDICAL RECORDS OF ATOMIC BOMB VICTIMS:

A GROUP OF BOYS FROM THE HIROSHIMA SECOND MIDDLE SCHOOL WHO HAVE KELOIDS CAUSED BY THE ATOMIC BOMB DROPPED ON HIROSHIMA, PICTURE TAKEN FOR THE ATOMIC BOMB CASUALTY COMMISSION.

PHOTOGRAPHER-SNELL

PHOTOGRAPH BY U.S. ARMY SIGNAL CORPS.

RELEASED FOR PUBLICATION, PUBLIC INFORMATION DIVISION, WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON

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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...