2012年11月5日月曜日

Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital & Iron Window Frames bent by the A-bomb blast


This three-story reinforced concrete hospital was destroyed by the viorent blast generated by the atomic bomb. Only the outer shell of the building remained.
At the time, part of the hospital was being used as a branch of the Hiroshima Army Hospital. All of the X-ray film stored in the basement was exposed, testifying to the fact that the bomb was atomic.
The doctors and nurses who survived the bombing used the sparse supplies that remained to continue providing treatment to other survivors who had gathered here for help.




These iron window frames are from the third floor of the North side of the old main building, located 1.5 km from the hypocenter. An intense blast caused by the explosion of the atomic bomb swept through the building, bending the window frames inward on the North side (facing the hypocenter) and outward on the West side. The frames were moved here and preserved, so as to pass on to following generations an awaerness of the cruelty of the A-bombing.


















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