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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.

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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