VOSHN 196

<body><a href="../index.html">HOME</a><br><table summary="184"><tr><td class="etesti">184</td><td class="edate">August 9<sup>th</sup>, 1945.  30 minutes after the explosion</td><td class="eage">15 years old at that time</td></tr><tr><td class="ei_midasi" colspan=3>Old man's belly was deeply cut.  Window sash pierced into the boy's stomach.</td></tr></table><table summary="haikei"><tr><td class="bg" background="../../photo/img159.jpg"><div class="large"><p>I evacuated to the top of a small hill behind the college hospital.  I felt safe up there and looked down at the hospital.  Just at that moment, flames spouted out from all the hospital's windows all at once.  It didn't catch the fire right after the bombing, did it?</p><br><p>There was an old man who seemed to be in his 40s or 50s.  His belly was cut open.  It was a quite deep cut.  He was pressing intestines with his palms, because the intestines were coming out between his fingers.  He was moving his hands up and down on the belly to hold the intestines inside.  He was crouching there.</p><br><p>I also met a school mate of the municipal commercial school.  He was my junior by one or two years.  A window sash pierced into his belly from the back.  The window sash can be dangerous to you.  It did not bore through but was stuck inside his abdomen.  It must have flown down on him by the bomb blast.  He saw me and begged crying,</p><p> "Please take this sash off me."</p><br><p>A medical student nearby told me not to remove it from my junior.  I understand now that he meant that would cause excessive bleeding.</p><br><p>My junior kept asking me to take the window sash off his body.  But I couldn't do it.  Meanwhile I had to save myself from there.</p></div></td></tr></table></body>