Hiroshima Bomb Damage
ID: CAL-01-0165
Format: HD
Location: Hiroshima, Japan
Description

MCU Doctor and patient. MS Doctor Hachiya and Chiyoko Morimoto. Patient has lost both eyes due to flying glass. CU Doctor examining girl patient's eyelids. MS Doctor disrobes displaying his body to show glass wound he suffered. Window was five feet from where he stood. Distance was 5300 feet at 45 degrees from zero. CU Scar tissue over glass wounds. CU Doctor Hachiya's right leg showing flying glass wound scars. MS Yoneichi Mosoro, showing flash burns on back, head, shoulders and scar line of demarcation. CU Left arm, right arm, back of head of flash burned patient. MS Showing the door of room 303, located on the third floor. This door faces NW and opens onto a corridor. From the door to opposite wall which contained glass windows with a distance of 11 feet 5 inches. From the wall of the corridor to the steel casement windows on the outside of the building facing NW with a distance of 15 feet 2 inches. This door is located approx. 4450 feet from zero at 179 degrees. MCU Showing frequency, distribution, and size of glass fragment. The depth of penetration into door. original glass on door replaced by straw mattress. CU Top to bottom of door showing glass imbedded in door and of glass fragments. MS Showing the effect of flying glass on plaster wall in the Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital. Perpendicular wall to outside wall facing NW which contains steel casement windows. 4800 feet from zero at 181 degrees. Doctor Shigota examines nurse. Scars on hands caused by glass.

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