| ID Code | YMATSUSHIGE0002 |
|---|---|
| Title | Devastation at the west end of Miyuki Bridge (Close-up) |
| Photographer | Yoshito Matsushige |
| Date | Between around 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m., August 6, 1945 |
| Location | West end of Miyuki Bridge |
| Distance from hypocenter | 2200meters |
| Existence of phorographic nagatives | Yes |
| Owner | Chugoku Shimbun |
| Custodian | Japan Photo Archive |
| Description | People suffering burns received dabs of transformer oil brought from the nearby Hiroshima Electric Railway. The girl in the foreground, wearing a sailor-style uniform with a triangular collar, and the girl to her left were second-year students at Hiroshima Girls' Commercial School (then 13 years old) who experienced the atomic bombing at the Hiroshima Postal Savings Bureau in Senda-machi 1-chome, where they were mobilized to work, but survived. The boy second to the right of the police officer from the Ujina Police Station was a first-year student at Hiroshima Municipal Junior High School (then 12 years old) who experienced the atomic bombing in Koami-cho (now part of Naka Ward), where he was helping to demolish buildings to create fire lanes. It is believed he was on his way to his home in Danbarasuehiro-cho (now Danbara in Minami Ward), where he lived with his parents. He went missing and his remains were never found. |
| Record of publication in literature, exhibition | Listed in photographic negative database of Japan Photo Archive, Photo collection Moment of destruction of Hiroshima, Life Magazine / Vol.33, No.13 September 29, 1952 |
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