A survey of physical damage of bomb blasts in Nagasaki, Japan after World War II. Two officers of United States Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS) physical damage team search for tiles. A tile in hands for examination. A medical team composed of Lieutenant Commander Nello Pace and Lt. Robert E. Smith takes readings of residual radiation in the area in front of the entrance to the Nagasaki Prison. A Geiger Mueller counter team reads the amount of radiation and plots the findings on a map. Robert E. Smith of USN operates the counter and another officer stands near holding a board with a map of Nagasaki. The officer adjusts the dial of the counter. The needles on the counter respond to the amount of residual radiation in the area. The officers move about and point the counter in a new position.
A survey of physical damage of bomb blasts in Nagasaki, Japan after World War II. A band of metal lathes and concrete walls which formed a machine shop on the ground. The band of lathes and the collapsed wall. Overturned lathes. Metal lathes with fractured bases and uprooted footings. A line of displaced lathes. Over bolts and anchor bolts which were pulled from concrete walls. An electric motor which apparently formed the motor power for the overhead belt drive running the lathes has been torn loose from its concrete bed. Heavy machinery in the corner of the workshop and another piece of overturned on side. Two damaged heavy milling machines- one Japanese made and the other American made. American milling machine trade mark. Damage inflicted upon metal housing of a milling machine by blast. An air raid shelter covered with earth. The entrance of the air raid shelter.
A survey of physical damage of bomb blasts in Nagasaki, Japan after World War II. A broken corrugated asbestos roof lying on the floor. A collapsed testing rig into a torpedo testing basin. Control equipment and instrument panels on the torpedo testing rig. A U.S. Army officer inspects the damage inflicted on the torpedo testing basin and building structure. A wall leaning inwards as a result of the pressure exerted on it by a blast.
A survey of physical damage of bomb blasts in Nagasaki, Japan after World War II. A damaged shrine which was built to house a picture of a Japanese emperor. Blast effect on a bronze door. The shrine in rubble on the ground. Mitsubishi Ordnance Plant in the background. Damaged building of a catholic kindergarten. Damaged Urakami Cathedral. Concrete monolithic dome of the cathedral lying in a gully. The back of the cathedral as seen from the corner of a structure.
A survey of physical damage of bomb blasts in Nagasaki, Japan after World War II. Captain Milton E. Jenkins examines a flash burned wooden gate. Captain Jenkins inspects flash burns on the wooden gate and calculates the means by which the lower part of the gate was protected. Children of bombed out families walk up a hill through ruins. A road leads an engineering school to a school for deaf and dumb. A garden in the foreground. A damaged catholic kindergarten. Displacement of a structure and radial cracks on a wall.
A survey of physical damage from atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, filmed after World War 2. Flash burns on a telephone pole. A damaged machine shop of a commercial school. Burnt out machine shop and the commercial school which was gutted by fire. Stripped roof of the building. Displacement and distortion of a wall as a result of blast. The bowed wall of the machine shop as a result of the force exerted which was transmitted through the frame of the structure. The destruction of the municipal tenement district located in a valley. A view of hills in the valley. Damaged buildings of the Shirayama School and the Nagasaki Hospital in the background. A damaged machine shop and several overturned lathes near it. A wrecked milling machine and a concrete block. Lieutenant Commander A. N. Vardac of the United States Naval Reserve stands near the concrete block. Distortion of steel frame roof of the machine shop. Burnt out casting with the machine shop in the foreground and the commercial school in the background. Cracks in concrete. A steel casement window frame blown out.