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Viewfinder Clouded With Tears
At 8:15 am, on Monday, 6 August 1945, Little Boy carrying 50kg of uranium 235 was dropped on Hiroshima by the crew of the American B-29 bomber Enola Gay.
Photographer Yoshito Matsushige took this photo of the survivors at 11am, 2,270m from the hypocentre. He later wrote:
'I fought with myself for 30 minutes before I could take the first picture. After taking the first, I grew strangely calm and wanted to get closer. I took about ten steps forward and tried to snap another, but the scenes I saw were so gruesome my viewfinder clouded with tears'......[Peace Memorial Museum]
Peace Memorial Museum, Hiroshima 広島市, Honshu 本州, Japan 日本国 (Friday 5 Sep 2008 @ 9:15am).
Viewfinder Clouded With Tears
At 8:15 am, on Monday, 6 August 1945, Little Boy carrying 50kg of uranium 235 was dropped on Hiroshima by the crew of the American B-29 bomber Enola Gay.
Photographer Yoshito Matsushige took this photo of the survivors at 11am, 2,270m from the hypocentre. He later wrote:
'I fought with myself for 30 minutes before I could take the first picture. After taking the first, I grew strangely calm and wanted to get closer. I took about ten steps forward and tried to snap another, but the scenes I saw were so gruesome my viewfinder clouded with tears'......[Peace Memorial Museum]
Peace Memorial Museum, Hiroshima 広島市, Honshu 本州, Japan 日本国 (Friday 5 Sep 2008 @ 9:15am).