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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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