Hiroshima Aftermath Seen By First Postwar Visitors
The reporter describes Hiroshima after the atomic blast, noting widespread destruction, ruined buildings, and a terrified, stunned populace. Eyewitness guides from Sacramento and a Japanese physician recount high death tolls, infection from burns, and the lack of medical countermeasures. The piece highlights surprise raids and the city’s shattered modern heart.
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Berlin
Peror
Buaings
Hiroshima
Ruie
Hiroshieng
Hirokuni Dadai
Pades
Imawe
Japan
Second Army
Badal
Tokyo
Sacramento
Cal
Washington, D. C
Eisenhower May Replace Marshall As Staff Head
World tensions fuel talk that General Eisenhower could succeed General Marshall as Army Chief of Staff. The piece also notes potential cabinet and senior service changes, naming figures such as King Halsey Spaatz and Baker and discussing Secre tary of War Stimson and Secretary of Interior Ickes.
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Eisenhower
Marshall
Washington
Enright D.eisenhower
George C. Marshall
Strath
Coneander
USS Fleet
Naval Operations
Admr
Ernest J. King
Adar
Cheater W. Nissitr
Wiliam F. Halsey
Army Air Forces
He HE Arsoild
Il Besten
Caz AS Spaatz
Ira C. Baker
Henry Lo Stimson
John J. Meekloy
Pwar
Douglas “Macarthur
MacArthur
Secretary of Navy
James V. Forrestal
Secretary of Interior
Harold J. Texes
Aol
Ickes
Ickea
Prize Crews Seize Jap Death by Own Action Boats
Tokyo Bay area reports twenty Japanese death by own action boats confiscated near Yokosuka base. Nine additional submarines boarded by American prize crews. Navy also recovers many midget subs and suicide torpedoes plus 44 baka bombs. thirteen killed in a Weisbad en train wreck 30 miles west.
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Third Fleet
Tokyo Bay
Yokosuka
Navy
Weisbaden
City Devastated by Bomb Drop and Parachute Fall
A bomb hung by tyre parachutes detonated at an altitude of one to one and a half thousand feet, erupting in a blinding flash that obliterated the heart of the city. Rescue and emergency crews rush to the wreckage as fires spread and debris litters streets.
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Vern Havgland
Hiroshigna
Kure Enship
Carp
Hiroshima Worteaize
Wakao
Mann’s
Fulton
Thee
Lois Ox
Central Office
Lady Fair
Nm. H. Frear & Co
Sailor
Freape Boys
Feears Des
America
Cohomo
Butterick
McCall
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