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irisblue

(38,339 posts)
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 07:23 PM 22 hrs ago

Image of the Hiroshima mushroom cloud from the ground about 4 miles away. I've never seen this before

Source-https://www.reddit.com/r/ww2/comments/1uv757j/a_view_of_the_hiroshima_mushroom_cloud_you_may/


Photographer Seiso Yamada, working for the Chugoku Shimbun newspaper, captured this photograph of the mushroom cloud a few minutes after the atomic bomb detonated. The image was taken shortly after 8:00 a.m. on August 6, 1945, from Mikumari Gorge in what is now Fuchū, Aki District, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.

Credit
https://visual-archives-hiroshima.jp/en/list/?cate=artifact_en&search_type=list&document=chugoku_shimbun

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Image of the Hiroshima mushroom cloud from the ground about 4 miles away. I've never seen this before (Original Post) irisblue 22 hrs ago OP
More about the photographs & photograph irisblue 22 hrs ago #1
there is a book. 100 or 101 suns i think. just h bomb pics. also researched pics for a drawing i did. pansypoo53219 22 hrs ago #2
I own 9 unpublished photos 303squadron 21 hrs ago #3

pansypoo53219

(23,311 posts)
2. there is a book. 100 or 101 suns i think. just h bomb pics. also researched pics for a drawing i did.
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 07:41 PM
22 hrs ago

303squadron

(898 posts)
3. I own 9 unpublished photos
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 08:05 PM
21 hrs ago

Of the aftermath. Shot by a US marine. Probably taken on or around September 17, 1945. Mostly burnt rubble with a few buildings.

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