"HIROSHIMA" by Hiromi Tsuchida

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Photo Set 15

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Yokokawa Bridge, 1,500 meters from the hypocenter.

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Mr. Hiroshi Harada
age: 39; occupation: city office worker; family: wife and two children
<at that time> age: 5; on a station platform (2,000 meters from the hypocenter); parents and elder sister injured.

"Four of us - my parents, elder sister, and me - were at Hiroshima station, waiting for the 7:30 train to a place of refuge. But the train did not appear. My father was reading a newspaper, leaning on a pillar. Then..." (written at age 12)

Leather Belt
Takao Nakamura (14 at the time) was doing fire prevention work with other mobilized students 900 meters from the hypocenter. On August 7 his mother found his dead body just before it was to be cremated. Although the left half of his body was badly burned and full of sores, he was identified from a patch on his right trouser leg. The belt he wore was a memento of his father, who had died in action on Iwo Jima.

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