Today’s Peeling Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
At exactly 8:15:17 a.m. on August 6, 1945, the ‘Little Boy’ atomic bomb was released from the bomb bay of the Enola Gay as it passed over Hiroshima. The following are eyewitness accounts of the aftermath of the bombing.
“I remember a baby playing alone by the side of the river, surrounded by fire and smoke, and I’ve often wondered how it escaped injury.” (Labourer)
“The first [casualty that I saw] was a little boy. He was completely naked, his skin was all peeled off as if he had been flayed, and the nails were falling from the ends of his fingers. His flesh was all deep red. When I first saw him I wasn’t sure that I was looking at a human being.” (Accountant)
Hiroshima burn victim
“I found the aid station surrounded by dead bodies, or should I say ‘charred’ bodies, for I had no way of telling whether the unfortunate people were alive or dead.” (Ship designer)
“On both sides of the road, bedding and pieces of cloth had been carried out and on these were lying people who had been burned to a reddish-black colour and whose entire bodies were frightfully swollen. Making their way among them are three high school girls who looked as though they are from our school; their faces and everything were completely burned and they held their arms out in front of their chests like kangaroos with only their hands pointed downward; from their whole bodies something like thin paper is dangling – it is their peeled off skin which hands there, and trailing behind them the unburned remnants of their puttees, they stagger exactly like sleepwalkers.” (Schoolboy)
Hiroshima burn victim
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