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The Bombing of Hiroshima
A Japanese schoolgirl tells her story of surviving the US nuclear attack on Hiroshima in August 1945.
On 6 August 1945 an American bomber dropped a nuclear bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Tens of thousands of people were killed immediately. Witness presents a vivid first-person account from the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ archives, of a young Japanese schoolgirl who survived the attack.
(Photo: The destruction left by the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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Wed 5 Aug 2015
07:50GMT
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