VOSHN 165

<body><a href="../index.html">HOME</a><br><table summary="154"><tr><td class="etesti">154</td><td class="edate">August 9th, 1945 Immediately after the explosion</td><td class="eage">15 years old at that time</td></tr><tr><td class="ei_midasi" colspan=3>When I came to myself, I was in the boiler house.</td></tr></table><table summary="haikei"><tr><td class="bg" background="../../photo/img425.jpg"><div class="large"><p>In the factory where I was it turned pitch-dark like midnight in an instant.  I was so near to the ground zero that I didn't hear the explosion.  As soon as it flashed over the whole town, it turned pitch-dark again.</p><br><p>When I came to myself, I was in the boiler house, where the sprayer --- the main part of torpedo --- was tested.  Trying to stand up I found myself in the boiler house.  I didn't know when I had entered there, because I ran for my life.  I felt my way in the dark and got out.</p><br><p>The two girls, who had been sweeping in front of the factory, disappeared.  They must have been blown away.  I walked for a while and met the chief of factory, whose left leg had gone because of being mutilated.  It occurred by accident.  His leg was mutilated.</p><p>Many people around there were crying.  It was pitch-dark.</p></div></td></tr></table></body>