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Dramatic Never Before Published Images of Hiroshima in Immediate Aftermath of Bombing (Very Graphic)
yawoot image collections ^ | May 3, 2008 | Staff

Posted on 05/03/2008 10:58:43 AM PDT by freerepublic_or_die

The Robert L. Capp collection at the Hoover Institution Archives contains ten never-before-published photographs illustrating the immediate aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing.

These photographs, taken by an unknown Japanese photographer, were found in 1945 among rolls of undeveloped film in a cave outside Hiroshima by U.S. serviceman Robert L. Capp, who was attached to the occupation forces.
Unlike most photos of the Hiroshima bombing, these dramatically convey the human as well as material destruction unleashed by the atomic bomb.

Mr. Capp donated them to the Hoover Archives in 1998 with the provision that they not be reproduced until 2008. Three of these photographs are reproduced in Atomic Tragedy with the permission of the Capp family. The entire set is available below.

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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History
KEYWORDS: atomicjustice; comeuppance; hiroshima; hooverinstitution; japattack; militaryhistory; pearlharbor; rapeofnanking; worldwarii; wwii
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Hirohito should have swung at the end of a rope along with Tojo.

The divine Tenno Mikado was no mere figurehead, as the pinko revisionists would have you believe.


41 posted on 05/03/2008 11:38:38 AM PDT by Emperor Palpatine ("There is no civility, only politics.")
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To: LSUfan

I remember a contest between two Japanese officers as to who could hack down the most civilians in a certain partition of time. The poster advertising this said event seemed to exude the festivity of a college football game, very sickening to say the least.


42 posted on 05/03/2008 11:38:44 AM PDT by Xenophon450 (I guess I'll never know, some things under the sun can never be understood...)
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To: HereInTheHeartland
It saved at least 100,000 American lives from dying in a mainland Japan invasion, and probably 500,000 Jap lives.

My dad was on Okinawa preparing for that invasion, following a very narrow miss by the Kamikaze that struck the Maryland after flying few feet over his head. Those little factoids do color my perception of the atomic bombings...

43 posted on 05/03/2008 11:39:37 AM PDT by null and void (No man's life, liberty or property are safe as long as court is in session...)
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To: The KG9 Kid
No need to fight WWII again on an Internet forum, everyone.

Killjoy.

44 posted on 05/03/2008 11:41:05 AM PDT by null and void (No man's life, liberty or property are safe as long as court is in session...)
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To: Publius6961

Bravo! Bellissimo!


45 posted on 05/03/2008 11:41:50 AM PDT by freerepublic_or_die (Islam:Truly the opium of the morons with apologies to Karl Marx)
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To: freerepublic_or_die

No, it’s General MacArthur.


46 posted on 05/03/2008 11:44:12 AM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: Rebelbase

Talk to survivors of the Bataan Death March if you want graphic! Ask anyone about the American sailors trapped in sunken ships at Pearl Harbor; ones that couldn’t be rescued.


47 posted on 05/03/2008 11:45:27 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Publius6961

ping


48 posted on 05/03/2008 11:45:55 AM PDT by Dusty Road
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To: Bullish
"By the time I'm through with 'em, the Jap language will only be spoken in Hell."

-Admiral William F. Halsey


49 posted on 05/03/2008 11:46:56 AM PDT by Emperor Palpatine ("There is no civility, only politics.")
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To: NRA2BFree

We’ve tried “Nation Building” in Iraq.

In the spirit of a well controlled science experiment we should contrast it with “Nation Leveling” in Iran.

Remember the results of the Germany Experiment after WWII? Divide the country down the middle, run a free market democracy on one half and a communist dictatorship on the other?

I’m sure every junior high schooler is taught all about the differences between the results on each side.

Volkswagon, Porche, Audi and BMW on one side, the Trabi on the other....


50 posted on 05/03/2008 11:48:47 AM PDT by null and void (No man's life, liberty or property are safe as long as court is in session...)
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To: freerepublic_or_die
More people died during the battle for Okinawa than both bombs combined.

The bombs made sure there were no more Okinawas....I'll take that trade-off any day.

51 posted on 05/03/2008 11:49:04 AM PDT by stylin19a
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To: freerepublic_or_die
I think the fact that we are still debating this event proves “Reverend” Wright wrong. We did indeed bat an eye and debate and argue this decision before we made it. We made the right one. Nuking Japan saved lives on both sides. Period.
52 posted on 05/03/2008 11:50:20 AM PDT by LiberConservative ("Typical" White Guy)
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To: Rebelbase
George Patton would agree with you.

"No b*stard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other dumb b*stard die for his country."


53 posted on 05/03/2008 11:52:08 AM PDT by Emperor Palpatine ("There is no civility, only politics.")
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To: freerepublic_or_die

I think if all wars were ended with exclamations marks (WWII) instead of ellipses (post WWII), we wouldn’t have to fight so many of them.


54 posted on 05/03/2008 11:57:11 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (America! It looks like it's all downhill from here!)
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To: freerepublic_or_die

It is good to record events as much as is possible, but there doesn’t seem to me any absolute moral lesson we can gather from these pictures apart from ‘war is a bad thing.’

Is it a necessary thing? Well, ask the Chinese, Koreans and other East Asians that Japan was waging an unprovoked imperial war against. While the fall of China to communism (putting aside the question of whether we could have stopped that or not) put a pall upon the results of the Pacific conflict, nonetheless the US achieved its primary goal of stopping Japanese aggression. And that is as worthy an achievement as any conflict has achieved.


55 posted on 05/03/2008 11:59:36 AM PDT by tanuki (u)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

That would make a GREAT tagline, if only it wasn’t so long.


56 posted on 05/03/2008 11:59:59 AM PDT by null and void (No man's life, liberty or property are safe as long as court is in session...)
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To: All

No pity here...my uncle was captured by the Japanese. He was a big man for then, 6’2”, 200 lbs., came out of their prison camp weighing barely over a hundred pounds. Was fed garbage and potatoe peelings and the inhumane treatment was unbearable. He really couldn’t even talk about it much. I had the chance to take the tour of the Bridge over the River Kwai a couple of years ago and the animal cruelty that was engaged there is beyond comprehension. They got what they deserved, to bad they didn’t bomb the bastards sooner.


57 posted on 05/03/2008 12:03:09 PM PDT by Alright_on_the_LeftCoast
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To: Emperor Palpatine
Whenever I see a picture of Patton I also see Gearge C. Scott..what a great performance he gave as Patton in those 2 movies.


58 posted on 05/03/2008 12:03:13 PM PDT by Bobalu (What do I know, I'm a Typical White Guy)
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To: Emperor Palpatine

USS Missouri

59 posted on 05/03/2008 12:03:33 PM PDT by freerepublic_or_die (Islam:Truly the opium of the morons with apologies to Karl Marx)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

I went out with a woman whose father was a Bataan POW, I was still in the Army at the time, 1968. He told me that he was glad that he had no male children, I though of the alternatives if we were in a war zone, and put him on my ahole list.


60 posted on 05/03/2008 12:05:04 PM PDT by Little Bill (Welcome to the Newly Socialist State of New Hampshire)
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