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History > WW2 (1939-1945) > USA, World
August 6, 1945
Japan
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Hiroshima
warning: graphic / distressing
Hiroshima atomic bomb survivors share their stories CBS 24 July 2023
Hiroshima atomic bomb survivors share their stories Video CBS mornings 24 July 2023 YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SW47XrWjB8
She Was 300 Yards From the Atomic Bomb Center — and Survived NYT 20 July 2023
She Was 300 Yards From the Atomic Bomb Center — and Survived Obon video Op-Docs NYT 20 July 2023
In collected illustrations by survivors of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, there are two striking pieces by Akiko Takakura, who was about 300 yards from the hypocenter.
One shows a woman who is so thirsty, she is trying to drink black rain.
Another shows a hand emitting blue flames.
When we met Ms. Takakura in 2012, we were surprised to find that her story offered a glimmer of hope amid all the horror.
At just 19 years old, surrounded by catastrophe, she experienced a kind of affection from her father that she never received before.
It was a small moment of happiness during unspeakable tragedy.
We asked ourselves how she had found peace with a world that had been so cruel to her.
Did the secret lie in the moment when her father washed her hands after the bombing?
What does an act of love in a moment of despair mean?
We lived with the voice of Ms. Takakura for the years it took to complete the animated film above.
There were many moments when we wanted to walk away from this project, to close our eyes to the horror we were illustrating.
Her voice urged us forward, asking us not to forget.
The illustrations by Ms. Takakura and other survivors inspired the visual style of the film.
They were predominantly created by individuals who weren’t professional artists, who presented their stories in a raw and unfiltered way.
They were saying: This is what happened to us.
There are few people alive today who saw the impact of the atomic bombing with their own eyes.
When they’re gone, their memories and raw emotions go with them.
We were lucky to be able to capture Ms. Takakura’s story, in her own voice.
Though there are thousands of stories of Hiroshima, the experience of a single survivor reminds us that there is only one possible human response: This should never happen again.
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M64VRRiBhYI
The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki The HISTORY Channel Canada 6 August 2019
HISTORY OF | The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Video The HISTORY® Channel Canada 6 August 2019
Some content in this video may be graphic to some viewers. Today marks the 74th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZSENcK-en4
The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima NYT 7 August 2017
The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima Video The Daily 360 The New York Times 7 August 2017
Through modeling and mapping technologies, witness from above what happened in Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945. By: Kaitlyn Mullin, Veda Shastri, Nicole Fineman, and Samantha Quick
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgp6ZH-by-E
Controversy over the decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan still lingers WP 7 August 2017
Controversy over the decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan still lingers Video Washington Post 7 August 2017
More than 70 years after the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the question of whether the decision was the right one is still being asked.
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX63b1sJtoc
Harold Melvin Agnew USA 1921-2013
Harold M. Agnew, fourth from left, with other group leaders involved in the atomic bomb project.
He later flew on the first atomic strike against Japan and helped perfect the hydrogen bomb.
Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis
Harold M. Agnew, Physicist Present at Birth of the Nuclear Age, Dies at 92 NYT October 1, 2013
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/02/
last surviving major figure to have been present at the birth of the nuclear age — a physicist who helped build the world’s first reactor and atomic bombs, flew on the first atomic strike against Japan, filmed the mushroom cloud, helped perfect the hydrogen bomb and led the Los Alamos National Laboratory at the height of the cold war
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Dr. Agnew was no giant of discovery, but he was ingenious technically and wielded great influence for decades as a presidential adviser and a gregarious hawk, as restless and unpredictable as the tumultuous age he helped define.
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/02/
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/02/
1945
The surrender of the Empire of Japan (...) was announced by Emperor Hirohito on 15 August and formally signed on 2 September 1945. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrender_of_Japan
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/
Bones scattered in September 1945 on a school playground, less than a mile from ground zero.
Photograph: Teiji Nihei
After Atomic Bombings, These Photographers Woked Under Mushroom Clouds A new book of photos documents the human impact of the bombing that ended World War II, - and challenges a common American misperception of the destruction in Japan NYT August 6, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06
The devastated city of Hiroshima some three years after the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city.
Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
Hiroshima’s fate, 70 years ago this week, must not be forgotten O Sunday 2 August 2015 08.00 BST
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/
A survivor still hospitalized in Hiroshima, showing arm and face covered with keloids caused by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.
Location: Hiroshima, Japan
Date taken: August 1947
Photograph: Carl Mydans
Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/56623cc503563918.html
Survivors still hospitalized in Hiroshima, showing their bodies covered with keloids caused by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.
Location: Hiroshima, Japan
Date taken: August 1947
Photograph: Carl Mydans
Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/43168a6b36007ec3.html
A survivor still hospitalized in Hiroshima, showing arms and torso covered with keloids caused by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.
Location: Hiroshima, Japan
Date taken: August 1947
Photograph: Carl Mydans
Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/5a266d06f14d105d.html
A mother tends her injured child after the atomic bomb blast at Hiroshima.
Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images
Hiroshima’s fate, 70 years ago this week, must not be forgotten The Observer Sunday 2 August 2015 08.00 BST
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/
Patients being treated in a medical tent in Hiroshima on Aug. 9.
Photograph: Yotsugi Kawahara, courtesy Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
After Atomic Bombings, These Photographers Woked Under Mushroom Clouds A new book of photos documents the human impact of the bombing that ended World War II, - and challenges a common American misperception of the destruction in japan NYT August 6, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06
A young woman who survived the explosion at Minami-Ohashi, a mile south of ground zero, being pulled on Oct. 4 by her aunt on a cart over rubble-covered roads to Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital.
Photograph: Shunkichi Kikuchi, courtesy Harumi Tago
After Atomic Bombings, These Photographers Woked Under Mushroom Clouds A new book of photos documents the human impact of the bombing that ended World War II, - and challenges a common American misperception of the destruction in japan NYT August 6, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06
This man, photographed Oct. 2 at a branch of a hospital in Hiroshima, had been exposed to radiation at Senda-machi.
Burned on his right arm, he received skin transplants from his buttocks.
Photograph: Shunkichi Kikuchi, courtesy Harumi Tago
After Atomic Bombings, These Photographers Woked Under Mushroom Clouds A new book of photos documents the human impact of the bombing that ended World War II, - and challenges a common American misperception of the destruction in japan NYT August 6, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06
A view of Hiroshima from Higi-Yama, a hill that rises in the eastern part of the city, about one to two months after the bombing.
Photograph: Collection Japanese Magnum Photos
World War II After 75 Years: Beyond the War We Know We set out to explore the end of the conflict and its aftermath, focusing on lesser-known stories both personal and profound. NYT September 2, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/
A view of the center of Hiroshima from a police station in September 1945. A newspaper building, a department store and a bank were destroyed.
Photograph: Yoshito Matsushige Chugoku Shimbun/Kyodo
After Atomic Bombings, These Photographers Woked Under Mushroom Clouds A new book of photos documents the human impact of the bombing that ended World War II, - and challenges a common American misperception of the destruction in japan NYT August 6, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06
Hiroshima after the atomic bomb.
Photograph: Courtesy National Archives and Records Administration/ Narratively
Daughters of the bomb: my reckoning with Hiroshima, 75 years later G Wed 5 Aug 2020 06.00 BST Last modified on Wed 5 Aug 2020 18.43 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/04/
A journalist stands on the former site of a movie theater in Hiroshima, Japan, in September 1945, one month after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city.
Photograph: Pool photo by Stanley Troutman
The Reporter Who Told the World About the Bomb NYT Aug. 4, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/
The ruins of Hiroshima, after the atomic bombing in 1945.
Photograph: Associated Press
Obama’s Visit: Renewing the Debate Over Hiroshima NYT MAY 11, 2016
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/12/
The Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, which stood very close to the bomb’s hypocentre.
The skeletal structure of the dome is now known officially as the A-bomb Dome.
Photograph: EPA
'Rain of ruin': the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima G Thursday 6 August 2015 07.30 BST
http://www.theguardian.com/world/from-the-archive-blog/2015/aug/06/
Hiroshima and the nuclear age - a visual guide G Wednesday 5 August 2015 20.30 BST
http://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2015/aug/05/
Hiroshima in ruins following the atomic bomb blast.
Location: Hiroshima, Japan
Date taken: September 1945
Photographer: Bernard Hoffman
Life Images
Ruins of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb blast.
Location: Hiroshima, Japan
Date taken: September 1945
Photographer: George Silk
Life Images
An aerial overview of Hiroshima in autumn of 1945.
The hypocenter and Atom Bomb Dome are visible at top center.
Photograph: U.S. National Archives
Boston Globe > Big Picture Hiroshima, 64 years ago August 5, 2009 http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/08/hiroshima_64_years_ago.html
Hiroshima The ground zero they didn't want us to see The Guardian Weekend pp. 24-25 16 July 2005
https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2005/jul/16/
Hiroshima The ground zero they didn't want us to see The Guardian Weekend pp. 22-23 16 July 2005
https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2005/jul/16/
Hiroshima The ground zero they didn't want us to see The Guardian Weekend pp. 26-27 16 July 2005
https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2005/jul/16/
6 August 1945
three strike planes (...) flew over Hiroshima that day:
the Enola Gay, which carried the bomb, and two observation planes, the Great Artiste and the Necessary Evil.
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/06/
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/06/
Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. 1915-2007
Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., pilot of the ENOLA GAY, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, waves from his cockpit before the takeoff, 6 August 1945.
208-LU-13H-5. Pictures of World War II > Japan US National Archives http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/images/ww2-162.jpg http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/#japan2
Paul Tibbets in 2003
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_Tibbets_2003.jpg
Primary source 031210-F-3050V-112 Retired US Air Force (USAF) Brigadier General (BGEN) Paul W. Tibbets talks about his experience flying the B-29 Superfortress, the Enola Gay, that delivered the first atomic bomb during World War II.
BGEN Tibbets spoke to a gathering prior to autographing copies of his book "The Return of the Enola Gay," at a book-signing event in the Pentagon Concourse.
Photographer's Name: MSGT JIM VARHEGYI, USAF Location: PENTAGON Date Shot: 12/10/2003 Date Posted: unknown VIRIN: 031210-F-3050V-112 DefenseLINK http://www.defenseimagery.mil/imagery.html#a=search&s=tibbets&guid=b8c8dff7b0a4a31469521c88b2b53c8d9338fd08
pilot of the US bomber Enola Gay, which in 1945 dropped the first nuclear bomb to be detonated in wartime
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Paul Tibbets was in command of the B-29 aircraft, which dropped the five-ton "Little Boy" bomb over Hiroshima as the US tried to end the second world war without a ground invasion of Japan
Up to 100,000 people are estimated to have died in the explosion.
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He always maintained that his conscience was clear over Hiroshima.
"I'm not proud that I killed 80,000 people, but I'm proud that I was able to start with nothing, plan it and have it work as perfectly as it did," he said in a 1975 interview.
"You've got to take stock and assess the situation at that time.
We were at war ...
you use anything at your disposal.
I sleep clearly every night."
Three days after Hiroshima was obliterated on August 6, the US dropped a second bomb on Nagaski, killing an
estimated 40,000 people.
On August 15, the Japanese emperor broadcast his country's surrender, saying the war situation had "developed, not necessarily to Japan's advantage". http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/nov/01/japan.usa
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Theodore Van Kirk 1921-2014
navigator and last surviving crew member of the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima
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In the predawn hours of Aug. 6, 1945, the Enola Gay, piloted by Col. Paul W. Tibbets Jr. and carrying a crew of 12, took off from Tinian in the Mariana Islands with a uranium bomb built under extraordinary secrecy in the vast Manhattan Project. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/30/us/30vankirk.html
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Morris Richard Jeppson 1922-2010
Army Air Forces electronics specialist
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Claude Robert Eatherly 1918-1978
Maj. Claude Eatherly, the only service member who flew in the atomic bombing missions and later publicly expressed remorse for what he had done.
Photograph: Sueddeutsche Zeitung Photo Alamy
World War II After 75 Years: Beyond the War We Know We set out to explore the end of the conflict and its aftermath, focusing on lesser-known stories both personal and profound. NYT September 2, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/
officer in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II, and the pilot of a weather reconnaissance aircraft Straight Flush that supported the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, August 6, 1945. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Eatherly - September 4, 2020
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Hiroshima - By John Hersey
The New Yorker > August 31, 1946 Issue
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/
August 6 / 9, 1945
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
At 8.15am, (...) the US B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped Little Boy, a 16-kiloton atomic bomb, on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 (...) 140,000 people (...) died, more than half of them in an instant.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/06/hiroshima-
Of 320,000 people in Hiroshima that morning, 80,000 died immediately or were badly wounded by the A-bomb, nicknamed "Little Boy".
The site of the explosion reached a temperature of 5,400°F.
Three days after Hiroshima, Nagasaki was A-bombed, with up to 40,000 killed. http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2007/nov/02/guardianobituaries.military
total death toll in Hiroshima (...) 297,684
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/06/hiroshima-
Estimates of people killed in the immediate aftermath of the two bombings and the months that followed range as high as 246,000
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The Last Kamikaze G 11 August 2015
The Last Kamikaze Video Guardian Features The Guardian 11 August 2015
The last kamikaze: 'I felt the blood was draining from my face'
‘It sounds strange, but we were congratulating each other for being selected’ for the special suicide attack unit.
‘When I knew we had lost the war ... the thought going through my mind was I had missed my chance to die ... and be remembered in infinite glory.’
Two Japanese veterans share memories of the second world war and the aftermath of the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima.
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3qoNE4XwhM
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