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Yamate-cho, fences of Sanyo Main Railroad Line

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ID Code IKITA0001
Title Yamate-cho, fences of Sanyo Main Railroad Line
Photographer Isao Kita
Date End of August 1945
Location Yamate-cho
Distance from hypocenter 2100meters
Existence of phorographic nagatives No
Owner Hiroshima City
Custodian Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
Description Yamate-cho, about 2,100 meters west of the hypocenter. Sanyo Main Line. Fences along the railroad line using railroad bed sleepers were spontaneously ignited by the bomb's heat flash and caught fire.
Record of publication in literature, exhibition Listed in Peace Database of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Photo collection Moment of destruction of Hiroshima
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