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Large trees exposed to the bomb's heat rays and a burnt truck

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ID Code SNAKATA0009
Title Large trees exposed to the bomb's heat rays and a burnt truck
Photographer Satsuo Nakata
Date Between August 10 and 11, 1945
Location Hirohima City
Distance from hypocenter Unknown
Existence of phorographic nagatives No
Owner Kyodo News / Hiroshima University Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine
Custodian Hiroshima University Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine / Kyodo News
Description Large trees exposed to the bomb's heat rays and uprooted and felled by the blast. A truck was overturned and destroyed by fire.
Record of publication in literature, exhibition Yomiuri Hochi (August 20, 1945, edition), Asahi Shimbun (Osaka edition) and To-o Nippo Press (August 21, 1945, editions), etc.
Note Considered to have been taken near the West Drill Ground, 700 to 800 meters northeast of the hypocenter