Seeking salvage in Nagasaki rubble, 1945

Photograph of a Japanese soldier seeking something to salvage in Nagasaki, Japan after the nuclear strike in August 9, 1945. "Release to PM's Monday, September 17th. | FC 1024829. Watch your credit. International News Photo | Slug (Jap salvager -- ruins) (WP) | Seeking savage in Nagasaki rubble | Nagasaki, Japan... A Jap soldier crouches in the rubble that covers four square miles in the once-flourishing city of Nagasaki, rubble left by the explosion of our atomic bomb August 9th. Apparently the soldier seeks something to salvage. It was estimated that 26,000 Japs died, 18,000 building flattened by the atomic blast. R-9-14-45" -- typed note attached to verso. "Received. Examiner reference library. Sep 17, 1945" -- stamped on verso.

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