On August 9, 1945, when the bomb was dropped, Yamahata was on assignment near Nagasaki. As soon as he learned of the tragedy, he traveled by train with writer Juna Higashi and artist Eiji Yamada to document the devastation in the city. He took 119 photographs that day, which were subsequently seized by the arriving US troops.
Yamahata was able to hide the negatives. It was these photographs that were found in the photo album of a person who was unaware of the significance of the pictures that he kept.
Describing what he saw in Nagasaki, Yamahata said "this is hell on earth".
In 1952 he wrote:
“Human memory tends to elude and critical judgment to dull with the passage of years and changes in lifestyle and circumstances. But the camera, as if capturing the cruel reality of that time, brought the reality frozen seven years ago to your eyes without the slightest embellishment.
NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART!
The nuclear bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima (Hiroshima) and Nagasaki (Nagasaki) claimed the lives of more than 250 thousand people.
It was the biggest massacre in the history of mankind. However, for a long time, in journalistic circles, there was a practice of falsifying real photographs from the scene. Even today, no photographs can be found in the archives, except for dilapidated ruins and buildings. Of course, these photos are also shocking in their own way, but they are very, very far from the truth.
The American occupying forces imposed strict censorship on photographic materials that directly or indirectly affect the scale of the disaster. Everything that "could in one way or another disturb the peace of our citizens" was confiscated and sent to the Pentagon archives. These photographs were kept for a long time under the headings of "top secret". Some of them were published much later, when the noise died down. One way or another, they reflect a human tragedy that we simply must NEVER FORGET.
All clocks found in the disaster area stopped at 8:15 am, the time of the explosion.
Near the epicenter of the explosion, the temperature was so strong that most of the living beings were instantly turned into steam. The shadows on the parapets from people were imprinted even half a mile south-southeast of the epicenter on the Yorozuyo Bridge. All that's left of the people in Hiroshima, sitting on rocks that haven't melted, are handfuls of black shadows.
The photo below shows how on the marble steps of the bank, on which the woman passed, only her footprint remained, scorched by the terrible heat.
On August 6, 1945, at exactly 8:15 am, the uranium-filled atomic bomb exploded 580 meters above the city of Hiroshima. It exploded with a blinding flash, a giant fireball and a temperature of more than 4000C degrees above the earth's surface. Fire waves and radiation spread instantly in every direction, creating a blast wave of super-compressed air that brings death and destruction. In a few seconds, the 400-year-old city was literally reduced to ashes. People, animals, plants and any other organic bodies were vaporized. Sidewalks and asphalt melted, the building collapsed, and the dilapidated structure was demolished by the blast.
Women, men and children, taken by surprise during an ordinary working day, were killed in a terrible way. Their internal organs instantly boiled, the bones from the terrible heat turned into solid coal.
Even not in the center of the explosion, the temperature was so high that it allowed to instantly melt stones and steel. Within a second, 75,000 people received injuries and burns incompatible with life. More than 65% of deaths were in children nine years of age and younger.
Even now, death from radiation damage overtakes the Japanese. “Without any external cause, health begins to plummet. They lose their appetite, then their hair begins to fall out. Large spots, like burns from boiling water, begin to appear all over the body. Then the bleeding from the ears, nose and mouth begins, and as a result, death.
Doctors give the patient "an injection of vitamin A to maintain the body. The result is terrible and unpredictable. The flesh begins to rot, starting from the hole at the injection site, then expands, hitting the internal organs. One way or another, it leads to death.”
The photograph shows an acquired cataract from the outbreak of an atomic bomb. The pupil is the small white dot in the center of the eyeball.
Hibakusha is a widely used Japanese term for victims or people associated in one way or another with the explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Japanese word roughly translates to "people affected by the explosion".
They and their children have been and continue to be victims of inhuman disease-related discrimination from radiation exposure. People consider such people cursed and avoid them in every possible way.
Many of them were fired from their jobs. Hibakusha women will never marry, as many are afraid to have children from them. It is believed that nothing good will come of marriage with a hibakusha. "No one wants to marry a man who is going to die one way or another in a couple of years."
Yosuke Yamahata began photographing the aftermath of the tragedy. The city was dead. He walked through the dark, dilapidated ruins, among the dead bodies for hours. Late in the evening, he took the last photo near the medical station in the north of the city. In one day, he became the owner of the most exclusive photographs taken immediately after the disaster in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
He later wrote: “A warm wind began to rise, and here and there I saw little lights from the fires, like rotten ones glowing in the dark. They were the remains of a great fire. The city of Nagasaki was completely destroyed."
The photographs of Yamahata are considered the most complete documentary evidence of the horrors of the atomic bombing. The New York Times called the photos "one of the most stunning photographs ever taken."
I suggest you watch the harsh footage from the time of the explosions of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The pictures that you will see in the sequel are really not for the faint of heart and show the whole reality that happened during those unpleasant times.
Nagasaki. The photo was taken on August 10, in the area of the Mitsubishi steel plant. This is about 1 kilometer south of the epicenter of the explosion. The elderly woman appears to have lost her bearings and her sight. Also, her appearance also suggests the loss of any sense of reality. 
Nagasaki. 10 a.m. August 10. Last sip. People died quickly after receiving mortal wounds 
Hiroshima. Still a living person with deep burns all over his body. There were hundreds of them. They lay motionless in the streets and waited for their death. 
Hiroshima. One second after death 
Hiroshima 
Nagasaki. An elderly woman received an average dose of radiation, but enough to kill her in a week. 
Nagasaki. An exposed woman with a baby is waiting for a doctor's appointment. 
Hiroshima. An attempt to cure the legs of a schoolboy. It will not be possible to save the legs, as well as the life of a schoolboy. 
Nagasaki. The child is put on a gauze bandage. Part of the child's tissue was burned. Burns of the bones of the hands of the left hand 
Nagasaki. Doctors treat the skull burn of an elderly Japanese man 
Nagasaki. 230 meters south of the epicenter. 
Hiroshima. Mother and her child. 
Exhumation of graves in Hiroshima. When the explosion occurred, there were so many victims that they were buried quickly and in mass graves. Later they decided to re-burial. 
Nagasaki - 600 meters south of the epicenter 
Nagasaki. Shadow. 
Hiroshima. 2.3 km. from the epicenter. The concrete parapet of the bridge collapsed. 
Hiroshima - wounds 900 meters from the epicenter 
Hiroshima. A 21-year-old soldier was exposed to an explosion at a distance of 1 kilometer. Doctors monitored his condition because they were unfamiliar with the effects of radiation. Starting August 18, they note that their hair has begun to fall out. Gradually other symptoms appeared. His gums are bleeding and his body is covered in purple spots due to hypodermal bleeding. His throat swells, which makes it difficult for him to breathe and swallow. Bleeding from the mouth and ulcers of the body. He eventually collapses and dies on 2 September. 
Hiroshima. Leg burns 
The epicenter of the explosion in Hiroshima 
Hiroshima 
Hiroshima. The city center has been wiped off the face of the earth. Only a few buildings survived. 
Hiroshima. light shadow...
On August 9, 1945, an American atomic bomb fell on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. This was the second time in human history that nuclear weapons were used. The consequences of the explosion were horrendous. 74 thousand people were killed and more than fifty thousand buildings were destroyed. The tragedy happened three days after the first American atomic attack on the city of Hiroshima.
On the day of remembrance of the victims of the disaster, Komsomolskaya Pravda made a selection of 10 photographs of the horrific consequences of this nuclear attack.
1. Photo mushroom cloud over Nagasaki. A huge nuclear mushroom over Nagasaki was photographed on August 9, 1945 from a neighboring island, located 20 kilometers from the city, by the Japanese Hiromichi Matsuda. This picture was taken 20 minutes after a US bomber dropped an atomic bomb on the city.
2. Black shadow. Near the epicenter of the explosion, the temperature was so strong that most of the living beings were instantly turned into steam. The internal organs of people in seconds became boiled, and burned bones turned into stone. Shadows on the stairs, on the parapets, near the buildings - all that remains of the people who were at the epicenter of the explosion.
3. Mother and child try to move on. Photographer Yosuke Yamahata took this photograph on August 10, 1945, the day after the bombing of Nagasaki. He walked around the city and photographed the consequences of the disaster until dark and one day became the owner of the most exclusive photographs taken immediately after the tragedy.
This photo was also taken by Yosuke Yamahata the day after the nuclear explosion in Nagasaki. By the way, as a result of the fact that the photographer spent the whole day in the zone of increased background radiation, he became mortally ill. 20 years after that day, he died of cancer at the age of 48.
The photo was taken by American Stanley Troutman. A nuclear bomb that hit the city destroyed everything within a radius of six kilometers from the epicenter of the explosion, including residential buildings. According to the Manhattan Design Center, 95 percent of the people who died on the day of the Nagasaki explosion died from burns, the rest from flying debris and glass.
6. A boy carries his brother on his back. This is another photo taken on August 10, 1945 by Yosuke Yamahata. The picture, like most other photos, was made public after the end of the war by UN staff. Prior to this, the photographs had never been shown to the world media by the Japanese side.
7. Tram and its dead passengers. In the upper part of the photo - in the center - a tram is captured, which was overturned by a blast wave. And nearby in the trench from the explosion are its dead passengers. The picture was taken on September 1, 1945 by someone in the US Army.
The photo was taken by American Stanley Troutman on September 13, 1945 in the destroyed Nagasaki, a little over a month after the atomic attack. According to the most plausible data from the Manhattan Design Center, on August 9, 1945, 74,000 people died in Nagasaki. However, it is extremely difficult to determine the total number of victims. The destruction of hospitals, fire and police stations, and government offices created complete confusion in the count of the dead. There was no data on the population before the bombing. The Japanese regular census was not complete. In addition, large-scale fires completely swallowed up many bodies. All this affected the calculations of total losses.
He swore off arguing with assholes, but he pissed me off at the bit ... and you’re definitely Dimitri white-collared? The manual is old and detailed, I see these numbers not for the first time, does the analytical department supply you with material there? Pistezh and provocation you have, frog. I repeat: The main (here I will be less categorical) volume of supplies came at a time when the enemy was already broken and the pendos participated in the loot in order to steal the Victory from the Union. Ask anyone in New York or Paris: "Who defeated Hitler?" - at least someone will remember the thread of the Soviet Union / Russia?
For the exact amounts of payments under Lend-Lease - this is to Siluanov, he knows for sure. I came across information that the servicing of lend-lease debts (interest and other dirty tricks) will be part of the budget until 2030. Yes, I read that the main volume was repaid, and, as it were, ahead of schedule, quite recently.
Well, how much did they drive us? Ahhh, don't, I know myself, Mr. Liberas. Our aces flew on many types of aircraft, German jets were shot down on La-7, Dolshushin fought on Yaks. Pokryshkin was a great master of his craft, he greatly appreciated the Aerocobra for its high-quality radio communications and the fact that it suited him and his school of fighters in terms of fighting style. At the same time, the pilots who regularly flew to escort attack aircraft, low altitudes, did not fight in ecstasy from Cobras, it is too heavy for this. And what we really needed - the B-17, B-29, P-51D pendos did not supply. The real fighter escort for long-range bombers - La-9 / La-11 was made after the war. A-ah-ah, what the hell to show.
http://statehistory.ru/35/Lend-liz--Mify-i-realnost/
Liked the comments there:
Igor ta-ta on the bandits. Here it is - Help! And if I shout to my neighbor - "Give me a kilo of gold - I'll machine gun for you! This is business! But! If at the same time I sell a couple of grenades to bandits, then this is a provocation! America began supplying goods to Germany even before the war, and so on until the very end. All types of fuel, for example. Automotive industry, are subsidiaries of American firms. And such trifles as sewing uniforms, the boss tried hard! form. The German soldiers were the first to drink Fanta - with a special for them and made Coca-Cola. Devices for experiments on prisoners, components for the FAA and much more. If the Germans had won the war, then America would have been their allies! In this regard, those who say how many Soviet lives were saved by deliveries to the USSR, in fairness, it is necessary to calculate how many deliveries to Germany ruined these lives.
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Were they on loan?
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And especially:
“It’s strange, but you read the memoirs of Amer’s sailors, how they languished in ports waiting to leave. Because there was a “golden” rule - until the cargo is paid, the convoy does not leave the port! And also the claim of the USSR leadership to America: why ships with gold, those going to pay for the delivered goods go in the mode of pleasure steamers, and at the same time not a single attack by the Germans, while all convoys with cargo are constantly attacked. What is the trick?
In opchem, here are such pendos without silver, people of great spiritual breadth ...
That's enough, enough of you white pendos.