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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: LSUfan

We were well justified in doing what was needed to stop the Japanese.

However, I will not be bringing an children into this horrible world. No-one should. They’ll just all end up being fodder some day or another. I’m 100% certain that massacres just like these will one day happen again in America and Europe. Just look at the growing population of spoiled, amoral hippies. Will we need to count on them? We can fight evil until our deaths (and I sure will) but there is no escaping our dark fate and all our attempts at defending our children are doomed to fail.

Damn, now I need a drink.


61 posted on 05/03/2008 12:05:43 PM PDT by Soothesayer (I'm breaking out of this hand basket!)
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To: freerepublic_or_die

The West needs to view these pictures and determine if they want Iran to acquire nuclear weapons.


62 posted on 05/03/2008 12:07:10 PM PDT by richiep (Richie)
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To: LSUfan

bookmark


63 posted on 05/03/2008 12:08:52 PM PDT by southland (Matt. 24:6 , By their fruits ye will know them, Matt 7:16, 7:20 Typical White Person)
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To: freerepublic_or_die

ATOMIC POWER
(Fred Kirby)

Oh this world is at a tremble with its strength and mighty power
There sending up to heaven to get the brimstone fire
Take warning my dear brother, be careful how you plan
You’re working with the power of God’s own holy hand

Refrain:
Atomic power, atomic power
Was given by the mighty hand of God
Atomic power, atomic power
It was given by the mighty hand of God

You remember two great cities in a distant foreign land
When scorched from the face of earth the power of Japan
Be careful my dear brother, don’t take away the joy
But use it for the good of man and never to destroy

Refrain

Hiroshima, Nagasaki paid a big price for their sins
When scorched from the face of earth their battles could not win
But on that day of judgment when comes a greater power
We will not know the minute and we’ll not know the hour

Refrain

Recorded by Fred Kirby, Rex Allen, the Buchanan Brothers, and others, 1946


64 posted on 05/03/2008 12:09:38 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: LibWhacker
Some learned from it. Some want to "get back at us" to this day, and blame us for their collective misery.

"Some" doesn't really mean anything. As a whole the Japanese nation is non-aggressive. Their military philosophy now mirrors ours as one of force for defense and stability not expansion or intimidation. I don't know what "collective misery" the Japanese have to complain about. Japan is a relatively wealthy nation now.

65 posted on 05/03/2008 12:10:19 PM PDT by TigersEye (Berlin 1936. Olympics for murdering regimes. Beijing 2008.)
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To: freerepublic_or_die
Wonder how far away from ground zero these photos were taken.

As part of civil defense training in the UK we were shown film of the bombs exploding.

Flesh as well as clothing was ripped from bodies. These corpses looked very "fleshy"

66 posted on 05/03/2008 12:11:25 PM PDT by Churchillspirit
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To: freerepublic_or_die

ATOMIC COCKTAIL
(Slim Gaillard)

It’s the drink that you don’t pour
Now when you take one sip you won’t need anymore
You’re small as a beetle or big as a whale-BOOM-Atomic Cocktail.

Splashes ice all around the place
When you see it coming, grab your suitcase
It’ll send you through the sky like airmail-BOOM-Atomic Cocktail.

You push a button, turn a dial
Your work is done for miles and miles
When it hits-it’s bound to shake ‘cause it feels just like an earthquake.

That’s the drink that you don’t pour
When you take one sip you won’t need anymore
You’re small as a beetle or big as a whale-BOOM-Atomic Cocktail

Recorded by the Slim Gaillard Quartet
Atomic Records #215, 1946


67 posted on 05/03/2008 12:14:50 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: LSUfan
Your photos of Jap cruelty and depravity are a small part of why I still insist on buying Chevy. I know some will say I'm crazy and that GM buys foreign parts, but those who say that are ignorant of where the profit goes or obviously not as committed to the United States of America as I. And before you go off telling me how many tours of duty you fought before buying your rice burner, just rest assured I don't question your patriotism, I know you are in the economically ignorant group who don't get that you are giving your children's future away.
68 posted on 05/03/2008 12:15:55 PM PDT by ME-262 (Nancy Pelosi is known to the state of CA to render Viagra ineffective causing reproductive harm.)
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To: freerepublic_or_die

Too frickin bad. They started it. We ended it. Death happens in wars.

Take note Iran!


69 posted on 05/03/2008 12:16:13 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (I heard it on the grapevine and saw it in the paper, so it must be true.)
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To: All
See my tag line
70 posted on 05/03/2008 12:23:11 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron ("I fear we have woken a sleeping giant and filled her with a terrible resolve" - Osama 9-11-01?)
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To: null and void
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.

FRiend, I couldn't agree with you more! I'm all for it.

71 posted on 05/03/2008 12:32:24 PM PDT by NRA2BFree ("The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves!")
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To: Publius6961
the victors, immediately afterwards, went right back to their occupations of farmer, doctor, teacher, father, without any overt evidence of the brutality they practiced just months earlier.

Interestingly, so did the losers.

Very few Japanese war criminals were prosecuted and punished. Yet it appears the vast majority of these "evil men" went right back to living normal, law-abiding lives, with Japan in fact having much lower crime rates than the victors. This includes, of course, almost all the survivors of the perpetrators of the Nanking massacre, the Bataan march and all the other Japanese atrocities.

The same appears to largely be true of the European "war criminals," mostly concentration camp guards, still exposed occasionally in USA. Most of them lived perfectly normal, law-abiding, even admirable lives for three or four decades after their crimes during the war.

We generally think of "war criminals" as being different from the rest of us, with the implication that there's something wrong with them and that they are by nature criminals and brutes.

The evidence is quite otherwise. It appears many, if not most, humans are capable of this type of behavior under the right circumstances, and equally capable of returning to normal lives when the conditions change.

72 posted on 05/03/2008 12:32:45 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. - A. Lincoln)
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To: Soothesayer
I will not be bringing an children into this horrible world.

Good, there are enough slackers already.

but there is no escaping our dark fate and all our attempts at defending our children are doomed to fail.

End it now. I don't want you to suffer or have to suffer myself through your miserable defeatist posts.

73 posted on 05/03/2008 12:37:26 PM PDT by xone
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To: null and void
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....

They're being taught that private ownership is evil and all those named marques cause global warming.

74 posted on 05/03/2008 12:38:59 PM PDT by OeOeO (Sic Transit Gloria Mundi... Gloria get me a beer,and hurry..)
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To: freerepublic_or_die

Each body in those pictures represents about 10 Japanese (and maybe 5 Americans) that didn’t die from an American invasion of Japan...


75 posted on 05/03/2008 12:40:01 PM PDT by Onelifetogive (This is an Obama-nation!)
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To: stylin19a

I’ve never quite understood the obsession with the A-bomb attacks.

We were already utterly destroying Japanese cities with fire bomb attacks, with loss of life in single attacks equivalent to or even higher than when the A-bombs were used.

The A-bombs were harbingers of greater terrors to come, but their use at the time provided no killing power that wasn’t perfectly available via other means.

It there really any moral difference between killing 100,000 people with tens of thousands of bombs dropped by 1000 planes, or using a single Bomb dropped by a single plane?

Had the USA funneled the resources used for the A-bomb into building more planes, ships, etc. they could have been used to kill a lot more people than with the few Bombs it had on hand by the end of the war.


76 posted on 05/03/2008 12:40:53 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. - A. Lincoln)
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To: La Enchiladita
Amen. And, dear God, may it never be used again.

Amen. And, dear God, may it never need to be used again.

77 posted on 05/03/2008 12:41:58 PM PDT by Onelifetogive (This is an Obama-nation!)
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To: Onelifetogive

It is also quite likely that without the Bomb Japan would have wound up partitioned like Korea was.

There’s a lovely thought.


78 posted on 05/03/2008 12:42:00 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. - A. Lincoln)
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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.

The number I saw were more like 500,000 and 1,500,000...

79 posted on 05/03/2008 12:43:28 PM PDT by Onelifetogive (This is an Obama-nation!)
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To: Emperor Palpatine
Its hard to get inside MacArthur's head on why the emperor avoided the noose. The general made many mistakes in his career but his approach in Japan has paid major dividends.
80 posted on 05/03/2008 12:58:22 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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