In the inferno that Hiroshima became, scorched, disfigured bodies lay everywhere. Railroad ties caught fire. Thousands died instantly. By December 1945, the death toll reached 140,000, about 40 percent of the city's population.
In the years that followed, radiation took its toll: intestinal bleeding, stillbirths, cataracts, leukemia and other kinds of cancers.
Books on Hiroshima describe the hell that became the city. A woman's charred body, frozern in a running pose. ho;ding tight her baby; bloated corpses floating down the Ota River; other bodies with the floral patterns from their kimonos burned into their skin.
All From Just One Bomb. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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