Think you've had a bad week? Try this..
07 January 2010, 07:45 AM
#1
Think you've had a bad week? Try this..
Survivor of 2 Atomic Bombs Dies at 93
By MARK McDONALD
Published: January 6, 2010
HONG KONG — Tsutomu Yamaguchi , the only official survivor of both atomic blasts to hit Japan in World War II , died Monday in Nagasaki, Japan.
The cause was stomach cancer, his daughter said on Wednesday. He was 93.
...
Mr. Yamaguchi, as a 29-year-old engineer for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, was on a business trip in Hiroshima when the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on the morning of Aug. 6, 1945. He was getting off a streetcar when the “Little Boy” device detonated above Hiroshima.
Mr. Yamaguchi said he was less than 2 miles away from ground zero. His eardrums were ruptured and his upper torso was burned by the blast, which destroyed most of the city’s buildings and killed 80,000 people.
Mr. Yamaguchi spent the night in a Hiroshima bomb shelter and returned to his hometown of Nagasaki the following day, according to interviews he gave over the years. The second bomb, known as “Fat Man,” was dropped on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, killing 70,000 people there.
Mr. Yamaguchi was in his Nagasaki office, telling his boss about the Hiroshima blast, when “suddenly the same white light filled the room,” he said in an interview last March with The Independent newspaper.
“I thought the mushroom cloud had followed me from Hiroshima,” he said.
Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Survivor of 2 Atomic Blasts, Dies at 93 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com
By MARK McDONALD
Published: January 6, 2010
HONG KONG — Tsutomu Yamaguchi , the only official survivor of both atomic blasts to hit Japan in World War II , died Monday in Nagasaki, Japan.
The cause was stomach cancer, his daughter said on Wednesday. He was 93.
...
Mr. Yamaguchi, as a 29-year-old engineer for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, was on a business trip in Hiroshima when the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on the morning of Aug. 6, 1945. He was getting off a streetcar when the “Little Boy” device detonated above Hiroshima.
Mr. Yamaguchi said he was less than 2 miles away from ground zero. His eardrums were ruptured and his upper torso was burned by the blast, which destroyed most of the city’s buildings and killed 80,000 people.
Mr. Yamaguchi spent the night in a Hiroshima bomb shelter and returned to his hometown of Nagasaki the following day, according to interviews he gave over the years. The second bomb, known as “Fat Man,” was dropped on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, killing 70,000 people there.
Mr. Yamaguchi was in his Nagasaki office, telling his boss about the Hiroshima blast, when “suddenly the same white light filled the room,” he said in an interview last March with The Independent newspaper.
“I thought the mushroom cloud had followed me from Hiroshima,” he said.
Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Survivor of 2 Atomic Blasts, Dies at 93 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com
quality
He must have been so far away as to not be considered to have had the bomb dropped on him ...
07 January 2010, 01:21 PM
#7
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Sheffield; Rome of the North
Posts: 17,582
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Perhaps the only fellow luckier was the USAAF gunner who survived a 10,000+ft fall without a parachute. The Germans were so in awe of his surviving that every stop was pulled out, in order to see that his medical care was sufficient...
Last edited by GC8; 07 January 2010 at 01:41 PM.
Trending Topics
07 January 2010, 01:22 PM
#8
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Sheffield; Rome of the North
Posts: 17,582
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
07 January 2010, 02:05 PM
#9
Scooby Regular
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 614
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Need a link to prove this or the OP wins
07 January 2010, 02:18 PM
#10
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: living in the Pans !!!
Posts: 1,008
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
07 January 2010, 07:04 PM
#11
Scooby Regular
iTrader: (4)
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: "In a distant land,far far away!"
Posts: 1,244
Likes: 0
Received 1 Like
on
1 Post
Gunner survies 20,000ft fall in WWII
YouTube - Triumph of Victory WW2
YouTube - Triumph of Victory WW2
-completely distracts you from the story behind it!
Nobody can survive a H Bomb being dropped on them, it's as simple as that. Can it be said that my grandfather survived it too as he was still alive many years after it was dropped ...
07 January 2010, 07:16 PM
#13
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 1,328
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
07 January 2010, 07:51 PM
#14
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Jan 2002
Posts: 11,581
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Have you bothered to read the story? He was 2 miles from ground zero on both occasions and suffered severe burns, ruptured ear drums and radiation poisoning.
07 January 2010, 08:23 PM
#17
Gunner survies 20,000ft fall in WWII
YouTube - Triumph of Victory WW2
YouTube - Triumph of Victory WW2
Fair play to both dudes for surviving though!!!! Don't make em like they used to......
07 January 2010, 08:40 PM
#19
Owner of SNet
iTrader: (7)
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Berkshire
Posts: 11,513
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Yes I've read it & it's rubbish as there's no context to it ... is he the only survivor within 2 miles, 4 miles, 10 miles, the whole of Japan etc. I don't consider 2 miles to be close enough to be a "survivor".
Seems to be many survivors here:
YouTube - Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Reenactment
TX.
Seems to be many survivors here:
YouTube - Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Reenactment
TX.
07 January 2010, 09:37 PM
#21
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Sheffield; Rome of the North
Posts: 17,582
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
07 January 2010, 10:14 PM
#22
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Jan 2002
Posts: 11,581
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Yes I've read it & it's rubbish as there's no context to it ... is he the only survivor within 2 miles, 4 miles, 10 miles, the whole of Japan etc. I don't consider 2 miles to be close enough to be a "survivor".
Seems to be many survivors here:
YouTube - Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Reenactment
TX.
Seems to be many survivors here:
YouTube - Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Reenactment
TX.
07 January 2010, 10:41 PM
#23
Scooby Senior
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: West Yorks.
Posts: 4,130
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
08 January 2010, 09:51 AM
#24
Scooby Regular
Pimmo for the WIN..
08 January 2010, 09:46 PM
#26
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Sheffield; Rome of the North
Posts: 17,582
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
08 January 2010, 09:50 PM
#27
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Sheffield; Rome of the North
Posts: 17,582
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Freefall - 1943
Astonishing as Pimmo's fellow's tale was, it'd have been a walk in the park for Sgt. Magee...
Astonishing as Pimmo's fellow's tale was, it'd have been a walk in the park for Sgt. Magee...
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
Mattybr5@MB Developments
Full Cars Breaking For Spares
28
28 December 2015 11:07 PM
Mattybr5@MB Developments
Full Cars Breaking For Spares
12
18 November 2015 07:03 AM