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![]() Men aboard ship partake in mass before going ashore. | ![]() A Catholic priest performs mass aboard the USS Thomas Jefferson. | ![]() A wooden pillar protrudes from a fake beach bunker made from sand. |
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![]() Dowtown Nagasaki. | ![]() Mitsubishi Motor Works, Nagasaki. | ![]() Soldiers enter Nagasaki. |
![]() Elderly man. | ![]() Burn victim. | ![]() Dead trees. |
![]() A church off it's foundation. | ![]() A sign describes ground zero. | ![]() Sumiteru Taniguchi, one of the more well known burn victims because he survived. |
![]() Aerial photography. | ![]() Aerial photo of the devastation. | ![]() Aioi Bridge, Hiroshima. Ground Zero. |
![]() Snapped wires from the atomic blast. | ![]() "A-bomb orphans" who were working outside of the city when the bomb was dropped. | ![]() A GI hands out chocolate to "A-bomb orphans." |
![]() Schoolhouse. | ![]() School in session. | ![]() A boy looks back at the camera. |
![]() Orphaned siblings. | ![]() A girl who became deaf after the atomic blast. | ![]() An older brother delivers his dead brother to the cremation pyre. |

Japan,
Photographs by Joe O'Donnell
1945
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