VOSHN 278

<body><a href="../index.html">HOME</a><br><table summary="260"><tr><td class="etesti">260</td><td class="edate">Around August 11<sup>th</sup> and 12<sup>th</sup>, 1945.</td><td class="eage">30 years old at that time</td></tr><tr><td class="ei_midasi" colspan=3>We sprayed light oil on many bodies and burnt them.</td></tr></table><div class="large"><p>We went to a factory in Urakami (district) in order to get rid of dead bodies.  We burnt scores of bodies.  It was summer so that the bodies, which had rotted, were stinking and were unable to touch.  So we carried them on shutter doors to one place, sprayed light oil on them and burnt them together.</p><br><p>We burnt about fifty bodies a day at the most.  In high summer, the bodies rotted fast and smelled out even after two to three days.  We brought with us poor lunch.  The lunch became less taste and we were unable to eat it.</p><br><p>On streets here and there, dead bodies, which had exceeded disposal capacity, lay around.  I had been involved in battles in China and had seen scores of Chinese and Japanese war dead left untouched in rice fields.</p><p>However, did the A-bomb destroy the whole city of Nagasaki, didn't it?  I thought that the A-bomb was more cruel.  You know, it was the whole city.</p></div></body>