"HIROSHIMA" by Hiromi Tsuchida

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Part 3: "Hiroshima Collection"

Photo 15

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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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