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Far left in the back row is Ashley Oughterson, Colonel and Surgical Consultant of the U.S. Army Forces in the Pacific, and to his right is Dr. Masao Tsuzuki, of the faculty of medicine at Tokyo Imperial University. The U.S. Manhattan Engineer District survey team arrived in Iwakuni Airfield on Sept. 8, 1945. Brigadier General Thomas Farrell, commanding officer, inspected Hiroshima city, including the Imperial Headquarters ruins, on Sept. 9, and left for Atsugi at 2 p.m. on the same day. Five military physicians (Colonel Stafford Warren, physiologist; Colonel Ashley Oughterson, chief medical officer of the Occupation Forces in Tokyo, faculty surgeon at Yale Schoolof Medicine; Major John Flick, ophthalmologist; Captain James Nolan, gynecologist; Brigadier General James Newman Jr.) and Army Press Corps member Kurt Kasznar examined patients accomodated at First National Elementary School, Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital and the Ujina branch of the Hiroshima First Army Hospital on Sept. 9 and 10. They were briefed by Dr. Masao Tsuzuki of Tokyo Imperial University. On Aug. 11 they headed for Nagasaki from Iwakuni Airfield. |
