Medical patients of atomic bomb attack carried out by the United States over Hiroshima, Japan during World War 2. A patient affected by atomic radiation shows the left side of his upper body. He moves slowly to show differences in skin tissue. The patient's lips and the left ear. His one hand is protected on which he was wearing a glove. The affected underside of the neck and the left shoulder.
Medical care and review for victims of atomic bomb attack carried out by the United States over Hiroshima, Japan during World War 2. Radiation affects on the back and the right shoulder of a female patient. The right side of the right breast shows protection afforded by the right arm. The right shoulder and the breast position at the time of the blast.
Ruins in Hiroshima, Japan after World War II. The entrance to a Savings Bank which is set up and doing business in a light wooden structure built inside the shell of the original bank building. A Japanese man pulls a cart along a road which has been partially cleared. A man walks through debris of a collapsed building. A Japanese man cleans away rubble from his property, preparatory to planting his garden and erecting his new home. A Japanese telephone maintenance man repairs lines on a telephone pole. A group of Japanese children collects sea shells near a bridge along the fringe of Motoyasu River.
Activities at a Japanese newspaper office in Hiroshima, Japan after World War II. A typesetters' rack shows several typesetters at work pick out the Japanese characters by hand. An entire page is typeset and is ready for press. A translation editor's desk where several American magazines lay on the desk. A giant press starts rolling and printing the newspaper. The finished paper comes out of the press. Two Japanese men engaged in sorting the completed newspaper. A pressman looks on.
Ruins in Hiroshima, Japan after World War II. Japanese pedestrians, traffic and trolley cars move past the destroyed Agricultural Society Building in the background. Several Japanese women dry green seaweed on a line. A group of Japanese children salvages small pieces of tiles. They use a rail spike to pry the tiles loose. A group of Japanese laborers loads corrugated sheet metal scrap on a truck, preparatory to salvage.
Damaged and destroyed city of Hiroshima after the atomic explosion during World War II. Japanese military officers walk through wrecked portion of a park. Officers inspect from a ridge a large area completely destroyed by explosion. Only few remains of buildings can be seen, others completely grounded. Stripped trees stand bare in ground. Damaged bridge partly submerged in water. Destroyed buildings, trees uprooted, rubble and debris. Two completely destroyed building with only the front gate and wall left intact.