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re: 75 years ago right now....The city of Hiroshima disappeared from the face of the earth....
Posted on 8/5/20 at 7:56 pm to EA6B
Posted on 8/5/20 at 7:56 pm to EA6B
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I have photographs my father took walking the streets of Hiroshima only a few weeks after the bomb was dropped.
Was he serving in the postwar occupation force?
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Posted on 8/5/20 at 8:03 pm to Bestbank Tiger
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Was he serving in the postwar occupation force?
History Channel had a show on this past Sunday about the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the bomb
1 thing they said was American scientists went into Japan... and specifically Hiroshima & Nagasaki... prior to the occupation forces to study the impacts of the A bomb
there was a quote that a Japanese doctor who was helping guide them apparently told them something like "you just did a massive human experiment"
and there's at least 1 report of someone who had leukemia actually being aided by the radiation from the bomb blast
This post was edited on 8/5/20 at 8:06 pm
Posted on 8/5/20 at 8:10 pm to Bestbank Tiger
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Was he serving in the postwar occupation force?
I never got a real explanation of why he was there, he was also at the Bikini Atoll bomb tests “Operation Crossroads”. He was in the Navy at the time, and had a lot of technical training. I suspect he was involved in measuring and recording the effects of the bombs. It was likely all Top Secret stuff, and he was of the generation that unless told otherwise the secrets were carried to the grave. I only discovered he was at Operation Crossroads after he passed away, and found some of his Navy records.
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