"HIROSHIMA" by Hiromi Tsuchida

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Photo Set 12

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Fukuromachi Elementary School, 500 meters from the hypocenter.

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Mrs. Atsuko Shimonura (Declined to be photographed)
occupation: house wife and helper accountant's office; family: husband and two children
<at that time> age: 16; at a place 600 meters from the hypocenter; parents, elder brother, and five younger brothers injured.

"Looking at these people, I could hardly imagine how I must have looked. My hands were red with blood, with skin hanging down. In my wounded flesh I saw black, red, and white things appearing. I was alarmed and tried to remove my handkerchief from my pocket. But there was no handkerchief and pocket. The clothes below my waist were burned away." (written as a university student)

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Masami Tsuchiya (25 at the time), a second lieutenant, was in the First Army Hospital (900 meters from the hypocenter) for an appendectomy. On August 7, a corpsman found Masami's dead body, part skeleton. He was identified only by the name on the towel in his hand. He was scheduled to leave the hospital that day.

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