Japan Holiday

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[Wayne Little]

Thanks Guys, the first area you are greeted with going into the Peace Museum are Large Photo's of the mushroom Cloud taken from different locations around the blast point at different times shortly after the exposion.

first Pic shows the Main large image, second photo locations where the others were taken,the a series of smaller shots.
The last 2 shots are self explanatory....I actually will not forget reading the caption and staring at that watch for a period of time....

 

[Shinpachi]

Beginning of ordeal.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

One just hopes the like of it never happens again.

 

[Gnomey]

Indeed, moving shots Wayne!

 

[Wayne Little]

Moving on a large diorama takes up a large space, showing the explosion point and the landscape/ devastation wrought by the blast, a minimum number of buildings left standing with much flattened or simply ceasing to exist.

The red rectagle in the second pic shows where our current day hotel is located.

 

[fubar57]

Thanks for posting this Wayne, the most info I've seen on Hiroshima to date. That diorama is unbelievable, stared at it for several minutes. That's also the first time I've seen people near the bomb, I thought is was much bigger.




Geo

 

[Airframes]

Excellent Wayne, and very sobering.
The jumped-up, power mad pr**s of this World, such as Putin, that d**khead from North Korea, and quite a few others, should be forced to visit Hiroshima and the Peace Museum, and have it explained, in great detail, what nuclear weapons really do.
It's taken 21 Centuries for mankind to reach a stage of understanding, tolerance, and the ability to help and protect each other from the effects of natural disaster, and just one of the above mentioned idiots could end it all in seconds.
I pray it will never happen in the lifetime of my children, their children, their children's children, ad infinitum.

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots Wayne! Very sobering.

 

[Wayne Little]

Thanks Guys, the next Memorable location after the museum was the Hall of Remembrance, this is a place that will leave a very lasting impression...
Initially we walked up to this arch as seen below in the first 2 pics which then to the right a set of stair decending to a lower level set of entrance doors where we decended a further downward broad spiral ramp to a lower level again, where we were presented with a large circular room bathed in an orange glow.
This was the Hall of remembrance....if you visit this place YOU WILL remember it long after you leave.

"The Interior wall represents a 360 degree panorama of the A-bombed city as seen from the Shima Hospital, the Hypocenter, made using 140000 tiles to mark the number of victims who are estimated to have died b the end of 1945.
The panorama was created based on photo's taken by the US army in Oct 1945.
The lower half of the wall displays the names of the 226 neighborhoods that comprised the city at the time of the bombing, the lower the name on the wall the closer it was to the hypocenter.
The names of the neighborhoods are arranged in 42 rows with 6 rows representing a distance of 500 metres."
"The fountain in the centre consists of a sculpture that depicts a clock face showing the time of the bombing 8.15 water spills over the face to the base offering water to the A-bomb victims , many of whom died begging for water to quench their thirst."

 

[Shinpachi]

The casualty number is certainly one thing, Wayne, to understand the scale of damage no matter what kind of weapon was used.
However, the number was not necessarily main factor to let Japanese leaders decide acceptance of Potsdam Declaration as they experienced same in Tokyo and Okinawa.

On the day, thousands of junior high school kids were also on the ground to clean the streets to tell what happened later.
Survivors thought the new type bomb could be a sort of chemical weapon as they were dying showing speckles on the skin within a few days one after another.
One more creepy bomb was dropped in Nagasaki and Soviet Troops invaded into Manchuria on the same day of August 9 to let Hirohito decide surrender.

 

[syscom3]

Amazing!

Shinpachi, thanks for being a member of this forum and giving your time for all of us.

 

[Gnomey]

Lovely shots Wayne! Very moving.

 

[Wayne Little]

Thanks Guys, here is the detail info from the pamphlet showing the panoramic view of the photo's depicted on the wall and an aerial view.

 

[Gnomey]

Nice bit of extra info Wayne, really brings home the devastation it caused.

 

[Airframes]

It sure does, and thank you Shinpachi for your valuable, and exclusive input, providing little-known information - excellent !

 

[Wayne Little]

Thanks Guys...the aerial view continues to show our direction around the park.the Blue throught the main museum, the Orange to the Hall of rememberance followed by the Purple to the Childrens Peace Monument seen in this next group of pics.

 

[Wayne Little]

The next stop the Korean peace monument...

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots Wayne!

 

[fubar57]

Very sombre photos Wayne.




Geo