"HIROSHIMA" by Hiromi Tsuchida

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Photo Set 5

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Cherry Tree
Chuo Park, 800 meters from the hypocenter.

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Mr. Toshihiko Tanabe
age: 41; occupation: advertising agent; family: wife
<at that time> age: 8; away from Hiroshima (at a place of refuge); parents died.

"Dad asked me, 'Where is your mother?' I answered, 'She's not home yet.' Dad said, 'Not home yet, maybe never.' Then he took to his bed. His return was a happy moment that was much too short. He finally passed away around noon on August 16, because he had inhaled too much gas. (written at age 14)

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Deformed Nail
Yoshio Hamada (26 at the time) was at Army Division Headquarters, 700 meters from the hypocenter. His left hand, which was hanging out of a window when the bomb fell, was burned by thermal radiation. His injury resulted in an abnormal growth of fingernails on his left hand. Even today he suffers from this continual abnormal growth. As the nails contain blood vessels, they cannot be trimmed without bleeding.

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