VOSHN 193

<body><a href="../index.html">HOME</a><br><table summary="181"><tr><td class="etesti">181</td><td class="edate">August 9<sup>th</sup>, 1945.  Immediately after the explosion</td><td class="eage">26 years old at that time</td></tr><tr><td class="ei_midasi" colspan=3>All the housings as far as I could see were crushed flat.</td></tr></table><div class="largep"><p>I recovered consciousness, and found that doctors, nurses, and patients were all blown to a corner of the room all at one.  I had a difficulty in breathing due to smoke developed from broken articles.  We were on the third floor in the hospital, and I went out to the hallway to go up the fourth floor that was the rooftop.  There was not any space to step on in the hallway.  Walking through collapsed articles, I managed to reach to the rooftop.</p><br><p>On the way to the top outside, it started to look brighter.  I saw that all the buildings had been crushed as far as I could see.  When I was hit by the bomb while I was seeing the out-patients in the room, I  believed that only I was targeted at.</p><br><p>However, I was awfully scared when I understood that nothing remained as far as I could see.  I barely descended to the entrance hall of the hospital.  Severely wounded people were down and groaning in pain at the entrance.  Most of their clothes were blown off, and some persons' arms and legs were blown off.</p></div></body>