10 New Pictures of Hiroshima Bombing
Thursday May 8, 2008
In 1945, U.S. serviceman Robert L. Capp found an undeveloped roll of film in a cave just outside of Hiroshima. On the film, were ten pictures of the immediate aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. In 1998, Mr. Capp donated the pictures to the Hoover Institution Archives with the caveat that they not be made public until 2008. You can now see all ten pictures online, but I must warn you, they are very graphic. (Be sure to read this update about this picture collection.)
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just wondering whether anyone ever would apologise to the innocent population of Hiroshima with a huge Christian community
The pictures are indeed horrible, but what is even more horrible is that the Japanese government did NOT release news of this bombing to their own people, so the people would not demand surrender and an end to the war. Instead the Japanese emperor and the military kept Hiroshima a secret, which led the U.S. to drop the second bomb on Nagasaki a few days later – truly unforgivable.
It would also be interesting to see pictures ( if any exist) of the Japanese slaughter in Nanking and the Japanese military’s experiments on civilians in Manchuria and Korea to try and develop their own bomb.
The ONLY saving grace of this horror was the end to WWII.
It’s also a scary warning about Iran today.
I totally agree with Latigo. Thank you for telling the truth whether or not it is considered politically correct. The Japanese were a formidable force to be reckoned with. I recently read a book about the United States Marine Corps history in the island hopping campaign of World War 2. It brought me to tears when I read about how our Marines were treated by their Japanese captors in Japanese prison camps. It wasn’t good enough just to imprison our troops but they somehow thought it was necessary to torture them. The Bataan Death March was another example of Japanese inhumanity. If we had to have invaded the Japanese mainland it would have been a long drawn out battle with millions of lives lost. For whatever reason the Japanese of those days were willing to do whatever it took to win the war for the emperor. There is no reasoning with that type of mentality. As Latigo has already stated this is the same mentality that Iran currently has. God help us all if they ever get the chance to use a nuclear weapon. There will be no stopping them.
There is a name for that: holocaust.
Ms Rosenburg is obviously a liberal apologist. The Japs started the war, refused to surrender, utilized kamikazze and banzai suicides. The atom bombs saved hundreds of thousands of Americans, and millions of Japs.
There is no excuse for torture and there is no excuse for any war. There is no excuse for deliberately targetting civillians. But both bombs were dropped WHILE the Japanese capitulation was being signed. The war ended in May 1945 and the bombs were dropped 3 months later. Americans were hated in Japan because of the sanctions and total blockade of the country prior to the war. I wouldn’t mind to see more documents about the capitulation and the sanctions. But as I mentioned before, nothing can justify torture or nuclear bombing.
Hey Rena, nobody cares.
people who live in glass houses should not throw stones