VOSHN 277

<body><a href="../index.html">HOME</a><br><table summary="259"><tr><td class="etesti">259</td><td class="edate">Around August 11<sup>th</sup> and 12<sup>th</sup>, 1945.</td><td class="eage">44 years old at that time</td></tr><tr><td class="ei_midasi" colspan=3>A dead fetus protruded from its mother's abdomen.</td></tr></table><div class="large"><p>I, as a police officer, patrolled the ruins of fires.  In the rivers, Shimono-Kawa (river) and Urakami-Kawa (river) at Oohashi (district), many corpses were floating in the same figure as dead fish killed with poison.</p><br><p>I realized that the blast was so powerful when I saw a whole <i>Mosodake</i>-bamboo grove squashed and fell as if it were smoothed down.  The bamboo grove had been crushed like a raft.</p><br><p>Every body was stark naked.  I could not judge whether their clothes were blown off or burnt.  The identification of corpses with clothes was easy, while those without were very hard.</p><br><p>In Yamazato-machi (district), a charred child mounted still on a tricycle.  It was a cruel sight.  And, because of the blast, a dead fetus protruded from its mother's abdomen.</p><br><p>The most sorry thing was that a baby survived while its mother had been killed.  In a such case, even we could not make any arrangements.  People often say a word of Hell.  Places under Oohashi bridge and in the river were real Hell.  It was really a brutal sight which we were not able to look at.</p></div></body>