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A-bomb Drawings by Survivors

ID Code NG143-01
Creator Akie Watanabe
Age at the Time 17
Donor
Date of the Scene 1945/8/6
Distance from the Hypocenter (m) 2,300m
Location Yoshijima, Funairi, Kan-on areas
Size (H×W) (cm) 18.8×26.7
Description A-bomb Drawings by Survivors
[Artist's comments]Summarized
It dropped something.
“Oh! The B29 dropped something white,” said someone, and I looked up through the window to see a plane and something falling from it. Just then―a terrible pain, as if I had been struck by a wet leather whip.
August 6, just after 8:00 a.m.
2,300m / Kurashiki Aircraft Corporation, Hiroshima Plant
Akie Watanabe

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