VOSHN disc5

<body><div class="bold">  <a href="../index.html" target="_top">Return to "VOSHN" Home</a>    [ Move to Disc  <a href="../e_1/e_disc1_f.html" target="_top">1</a>  <a href="../e_2/e_disc2_f.html" target="_top">2</a>  <a href="../e_3/e_disc3_f.html" target="_top">3</a>  <a href="../e_4/e_disc4_f.html" target="_top">4</a>  <span class="gray">5</span>  <a href="../e_6/e_disc6_f.html" target="_top">6</a>  <a href="../e_7/e_disc7_f.html" target="_top">7</a>  <a href="../e_8/e_disc8_f.html" target="_top">8</a>  <a href="../e_9/e_disc9_f.html" target="_top">9</a>  ]<br><br></div><span class="large"><span class="orangered">  <strong>VOSHN</strong>  Disc 5</span></span>  [56:00]  Witnesses to Nagasaki around noon through the evening, August 9, 1945<br><br><table><tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_199_f.html" target="_top">MC13</a></td><td class="emidasi">At the same time, in the west side of the hypocenter, such as Shiroyama Primary School.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_200_f.html" target="_top">187</a></td><td class="emidasi">The town of Shiroyama was a sea of fire flames.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_201_f.html" target="_top">188</a></td><td class="emidasi">Big trees were blown off.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_202_f.html" target="_top">189</a></td><td class="emidasi">They were shouting from a collapsed house, "Help me!"</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_203_f.html" target="_top">190</a></td><td class="emidasi">They got me, his voice was barely heard</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_204_f.html" target="_top">191</a></td><td class="emidasi">Pray to Amida Buddha, my friend</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_205_f.html" target="_top">192</a></td><td class="emidasi">I couldn't walk but stepped on the dead bodies.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_206_f.html" target="_top">193</a></td><td class="emidasi">Skins were torn off and plopped down.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_207_f.html" target="_top">194</a></td><td class="emidasi">My skin was peeled and hung down.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_208_f.html" target="_top">195</a></td><td class="emidasi">A girl had a piece of board stuck in her head.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_209_f.html" target="_top">MC14</a></td><td class="emidasi">Rescue operations by the four National Railway trains.  The first train entered the hypocenter from the north of Nagasaki city before 1pm. </td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_210_f.html" target="_top">196</a></td><td class="emidasi">There were cries for help from the victims everywhere, in the surrounding hills and paths.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_211_f.html" target="_top">197</a></td><td class="emidasi">The injured persons made a stepping stone of other injured persons.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_212_f.html" target="_top">198</a></td><td class="emidasi">The mailman was standing, but dead.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_213_f.html" target="_top">199</a></td><td class="emidasi">I felt warm blood in my mouth.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_214_f.html" target="_top">200</a></td><td class="emidasi">We were like pigs that were nearly beaten to death.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_215_f.html" target="_top">201</a></td><td class="emidasi">A mistaken belief killed many people.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_216_f.html" target="_top">202</a></td><td class="emidasi">The injured huddled like dogs and groaned.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_217_f.html" target="_top">203</a></td><td class="emidasi">I could hear shards of glass jingling in the patient's lung.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_218_f.html" target="_top">MC15</a></td><td class="emidasi">The south, Japanese National Railways Nagasaki Station in ground zero, the circumference, and old city district.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_219_f.html" target="_top">204</a></td><td class="emidasi">Wasn't it a newly developed bomb, the same as the one which was dropped over Hiroshima?</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_220_f.html" target="_top">205</a></td><td class="emidasi">The area around the train station was chaotic.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_221_f.html" target="_top">206</a></td><td class="emidasi">Fire started in the Nagasaki Prefectural Office.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_222_f.html" target="_top">207</a></td><td class="emidasi">An Imperial Navy crewman will never die of an injury like this.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_223_f.html" target="_top">208</a></td><td class="emidasi">Tell me your name or I can't tell who you are.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_224_f.html" target="_top">MC16</a></td><td class="emidasi">From early afternoon to evening on August 9, 1945.  Movement toward from old city district to ground zero.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_225_f.html" target="_top">209</a></td><td class="emidasi">I will work for my country when I get well.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_226_f.html" target="_top">210</a></td><td class="emidasi">It was hell on earth.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_227_f.html" target="_top">211</a></td><td class="emidasi">It was dreadful to hear the groaning of thousands of people.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_228_f.html" target="_top">212</a></td><td class="emidasi">He was dead with his both arms stretched out for help.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_229_f.html" target="_top">213</a></td><td class="emidasi">A pine tree had been pulled out and blown off.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_230_f.html" target="_top">214</a></td><td class="emidasi">I ran every time the enemy planes flew away.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_231_f.html" target="_top">215</a></td><td class="emidasi">I said the prayer of Job.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_232_f.html" target="_top">216</a></td><td class="emidasi">I have forgotten the prayer.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_233_f.html" target="_top">217</a></td><td class="emidasi">In the air-raid shelter, there were prisoners of the Allied Forces.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_234_f.html" target="_top">218</a></td><td class="emidasi">I've forgotten my baby.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_235_f.html" target="_top">219</a></td><td class="emidasi">The shelter was full of seriously injured people.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_236_f.html" target="_top">220</a></td><td class="emidasi">Inside the ribs and skulls are difficult to catch on fire.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_237_f.html" target="_top">221</a></td><td class="emidasi">Once they had water, they all died.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_238_f.html" target="_top">222</a></td><td class="emidasi">If their pupils were open...</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_239_f.html" target="_top">223</a></td><td class="emidasi">My family may now be in the fire.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_240_f.html" target="_top">224</a></td><td class="emidasi">Parents searching for their children jumped at me.</td></tr><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_241_f.html" target="_top">225</a></td><td class="emidasi">The whole nation was gone.</td><tr><td class="number"><a href="e_242_f.html" target="_top">226</a></td><td class="emidasi">I walked home crying for Nagasaki on fire.</td></tr></tr></table></body>