VOSHN 157

<body><a href="../index.html">HOME</a><br><table summary="146"><tr><td class="etesti">146</td><td class="edate">August 9th, 1945 At the moment of the explosion and immediately after the explosion</td><td class="eage">20 years old at that time</td></tr><tr><td class="ei_midasi" colspan=3>My shoes were burning</td></tr></table><div class="largep"><p>I was a soldier of the anti-aircraft unit posted at the back of Nagasaki station.  I thought that the sun fell down when it happened.  The strength of the light of the heat flash, the huge sound of the explosion!!  people later on called it "Pika-Don"<sup><span class="red">1</span></sup> (the bomb flashed, and then exploded).  But, maybe because I was already gazing into the sky on my duty, I felt the flash and sound at the same time.</p><br><p>Everything looked yellowish and the smoke was moving.  It was like the air was moving.</p><p>"I was hit, help me,"</p><p>I heard that voice and looked at the direction.  The naked soldier was roaming around there.  He was shouting like crazy.</p><br><p>The burns on my skins started to pain badly.  I was standing but crouched down on the ground again.  And I realized that my shoes and shirt burned and were smoldering.  Instinctively I extinguished the smoke.</p><br><div class="cap"><span class="red">1</span>) Pika-Don:<br>    Pika=the sound of the flash light.<br>    Don=the sound of the big fall.  "Thud" may sound close in English.</div></div></body>