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Hiroshima was the first atomic bomb city. I photographed Nagasaki: a few days before Hiroshima, hence the placement of Nagasaki: first in the album.

[[image: a 1 to 16,000 scale map of Nagasaki
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[[handwritten caption: A very early map, years before WWII.

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NAGASAKI
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ATOM BOMB NO. 2
DISEMBOWELED IT

Seventy-five hours after the world's first atomic bombing, an interval marked by President Truman's demand for unconditional surrender, the second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, shipbuilding port and industrial center. This bomb was described as an "improved type," easier to construct and productive of a greater blast. It landed in the middle of Nagasaki's industries and disemboweled the crowded city. [[underlined]] Unlike the Hiroshima bomb, it dug a huge crater, [[/underlined]] ^[[Rumor was not true.]] destroying a square mile—30% of the city.

When the bomb went off, a flier on another mission 250 miles away saw a huge ball of fiery yellow erupt. Others, nearer at hand, saw a big mushroom of smoke and dust billow darkly up to [[underlined]] 20,000 feet [[/underlined]] ^[[(90,000)]] and then the same detached floating head observed at Hiroshima. Twelve hours later Nagasaki was a mass of flame, palled by acrid smoke, its pyre still visible to pilots 200 miles away.

The bombers reported that black smoke had shot up like a tremendous, ugly waterspout. Physicists at the bomber base theorized that this smoke was the pulverized fragments of the Mitsubishi Steel and Arms Works. With grim satisfaction they declared that the "improved" second atomic bomb had already made the first one obsolete.

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[[image: photo, aerial view of part of a city, with a river running into a bay]]    
[[written across photo]] Fred J. Olivi Lt Col USAF (Ret) Co-pilot on "Bockscar" Nagasaki 9 Aug 1945 [[/written across photo]]]]
By Jones
[[arrow pointing up to lower right corner of photo]] Chinzet School
[[typed on photo: Nagasaki, looking south

[[image: aerial view of land and clouds]]

[[image: aerial view of storm cloud ahead]]

We flew west to Sasebo to get around this]]

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