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ID Code TFUKADA0003
Title Mushroom cloud
Photographer Toshio Fukada
Date On August 6, 1945
Location Kasumi-cho, Hiroshima Army Ordnance Supply Depot
Distance from hypocenter 2700meters
Existence of phorographic nagatives Yes
Owner Hiroshima City
Custodian Film stored at Japan Photo Archive Custodian: Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
Description Toshio Fukada, then 16 years old and who had been mobilized to the Hiroshima Army Ordinance Supply Depot, ran upstairs to the second floor of Weapons Arsenal No. 2 after being hit by the bomb's blast; he took photos from the window looking northwest with the camera he was carrying, called Baby Pearl. This is the third of the four photos he took in a row.
Record of publication in literature, exhibition Listed in Peace Database of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Listed in photographic negative database of Japan Photo Archive, Photo collection Moment of destruction of Hiroshima
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