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Military doctors, part of the Manhattan Project atomic bomb survey team, in discussion at the Hiroshima First Army Hospital Ujina Branch. The man in the center with the star on the arm of his shirt is Colonel in the Army Medical Corps Stafford Warren. The man in the left foreground wearing a camera strap is probably Surgeon Colonel Ashley Oughterson. 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. |
