Japanese Soldier Salvaging in Rubble
A Japanese soldier crouches in the rubble that covers four square miles in the once flourishing city of Nagasaki. The rubble was left by the explosion of a US atomic bomb August 9, 1945. Apparently the soldier seeks something to salvage. It was estimated that 26,000 Japanese died, 3,000 buildings flattened by the atomic blast. | Location: Nagasaki, Kyushu, Japan.

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September 14, 1945
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