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Using contemporary diaries and letters, mainly translated from Japanese, we follow a group of Nagasaki residents from the early morning of the day of the bombing of Hiroshima to midnight on the day of the second bombing in Nagasaki
In a compelling narrative based on eyewitness accounts, contemporary diaries, letters, and interviews, Craig Collie collects the stories of the many levels of devastation suffered on that fateful day in Nagasaki. The war was coming to an end at last. The people of Nagasaki knew this as they desperately tried to survive each days shortages of food and warmthordinary people going about their lives as normally as they could manage. People like Nagai, the doctor whod just been told he had leukemia; Father Tamaya, the Catholic priest whod agreed to postpone a return to his rural parish; and Koichi, the tram driver. Because the bombing of Hiroshima had been so devastating and there was severe media censorship, they knew nothing of what had befallen that city except for unbelievable stories told by a few survivors who had just now arrived. Beyond Japan, forces they could never have imagined were mustering as the Americans prepared to drop their next atomic bomb on the armaments-manufacturing city of Kokura. Bad weather, however, sent the pilots and their terrible load to Nagasaki, where a group of 169 POWs were digging air-raid shelters and repairing bridges near what became the bombs epicenter. And, above the heads of them all, the machinery of wartime politics stumbled on toward its catastrophic finale. This book comes as close as history will allow to being there when 80,000 people died as a result of the bomb, half of them instantaneously. The world had changed forever and the shock waves would ripple right up to the present day, as we continue to contemplate the terrible power of a nuclear future.
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First published in Australia in 2011
Copyright Craig Collie 2011
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Contents
Nagasaki city, prior to the atomic bombing
Location of people at detonation of the atomic bomb
The time in Washington DC is 13 hours behind Tokyo. Moscow is
6 hours behind Tokyo and 7 hours ahead of Washington DC.
Tinian operated 1 hour ahead of Tokyo and its bombing missions remained on Tinian time even when they were over Japan. In this book, times in flight operations are described in Tokyo time, once they are in the air, to assist the reader grasp the chronology of events. Any US mission documents quoted, however, retain the time given in the document which will be Tinian time.
Because of the greater time differences, this approach is not used for Washington or Moscow. Paradoxical times (such as Americans having dinner at 7 a.m.) would be distracting. Time is given in local time in each case, but events are generally laid out in rough chronological order. This should ease understanding of the sequence of events. Where the time in two places is key to the understanding of events, both times are given.
People featured in this book
Nagasaki
Dr Tatsuichiro AKIZUKI, 29, doctor, Urakami Dai-ichi Hospital
Chiyoko EGASHIRA, 35, teacher, Shiroyama Primary School
Sakue KAWASAKI, 10, adopted daughter of Mr and Mrs Takigawa
Sugako MURAI, 26, cook and nurse, Urakami Dai-ichi Hospital
Dr Takashi NAGAI, 37, radiologist, Nagasaki Medical College
Takejiro NISHIOKA, 50, publisher of Minyu newspaper
Mitsue TAKENO, 16, mobilised student, Nagasaki Arms Factory
Miwa TAKIGAWA, 49, housewife and community leader
Sumiteru TANIGUCHI, 16, postman
Koichi WADA, 18, mobilised student, tram driver,
Nagasaki Tram Company
Tsutomu YAMAGUCHI, 25, draftsman, Nagasaki shipyard
(seconded to Hiroshima)
Ukichi EGASHIRA, teacher and mobilised supervisor,
Nagasaki arms factory (Ohashi)
Nurse Tsuyako FUKAHORI, head nurse, Urakami Dai-ichi Hospital
Yoshiro FUKUDA, 50, manager, Nagasaki arms factory (Ohashi)
Kyoto HASHIMOTO, mobilised student, Nagasaki arms factory
Nurse HASHIMOTO, Nagasaki Medical College Hospital
Chifusa Chi-chan HIRAI, 16, a school friend of Mitsue Takeno
Akira IWANAGA, 25, draftsman, Nagasaki shipyard (seconded to Hiroshima)
Brother Joseph IWANAGA, Franciscan monk, Urakami Dai-ichi Hospital
Ryoko KAWASAKI, 8, adopted daughter of Mr and Mrs Takigawa
Kyobei MINAMI, 40, warden of Urakami Prison
Midori NAGAI, wife of Dr Nagai
Wakamatsu NAGANO, governor of Nagasaki Prefecture
Setsuko N-san NAKAMURA, 16, mobilised student, Nagasaki arms factory
Father Saburo (Raphael) NISHIDA, Catholic priest, Urakami Cathedral
Haruko NOGUCHI, 12, tram conductor, Nagasaki Tram Company
Tatsu NOGUCHI, 13, tram conductor, Nagasaki Tram Company
Yoshini NOGUCHI, theology student, Urakami Dai-ichi Hospital
Junji SATO, 26, journalist, Domei News Agency
Kuniyoshi SATO, draftsman, Nagasaki shipyard (seconded to Hiroshima)
Professor SEIKI, Department of Pharmacy, Nagasaki Medical College
Mitsue TABATA, pregnant housewife
Torahachi TAGAWA, 40, foreman, Nagasaki arms factory (Ohashi)
Masuichi TAKIGAWA, 17, medical student, son of Miwa Takigawa
Sadako TAKIGAWA, 22, daughter of Miwa TAKIGAWA
Father Fusakichi (Simon) TAMAYA, 28, Catholic priest, Urakami Cathedral
Sakataro Oba-chan TANIGUCHI, grandmother of Sumiteru Taniguchi
Taga Ji-san TANIGUCHI, grandfather of Sumiteru Taniguchi
Tsuneo TOMITA, 21, pharmacy student, Nagasaki Medical College
Dr Susumu TSUNO, dean of Nagasaki Medical College
Tatsuro YAMAWAKI, 11, primary school student, twin of Yoshiro Yamawaki
Toshihiro YAMAWAKI, 14, mobilised student and older brother of Yamawaki twins
Yasuo YAMAWAKI, engineer, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and father of Yamawaki twins
Yoshiro YAMAWAKI, 11, primary school student, twin of Tatsuro Yamawaki
Atomic Bomb Missions
General Leslie Dick GROVES, director of the Manhattan Project
J Robert OPPENHEIMER, Director of Scientific Research, Manhattan Project
Major Charles SWEENEY, pilot, Bockscar and leader of second mission
Colonel Paul TIBBETS, pilot, Enola Gay and leader of first mission
Lieutenant Don ALBURY, co-pilot, Bockscar
Lieutenant-Commander Frederick ASHWORTH, weaponeer, Bockscar
Captain Kermit BEAHAN, 26, bombardier, Bockscar
Lieutenant Jake BESER, electronic countermeasures officer, Enola Gay and Bockscar
Captain Fred BOCK, pilot, The Great Artiste
Sergeant Ed BUCKLEY, radar operator, Bockscar
Sergeant Albert Pappy DEHART, tail gunner, Bockscar
General Thomas FARRELL, Joint Chief, Project Alberta
Major Thomas FEREBEE, bombardier, Enola Gay
Sergeant Ray GALLAGHER, assistant flight engineer, Bockscar
Lieutenant-Colonel Jim HOPKINS, pilot, The Big Stink
Sergeant John KUHAREK, flight engineer, Bockscar
General Curtis LEMAY, chief of XXI Bomber Command
Lieutenant Fred OLIVI, third pilot, Bockscar
Captain William Deak PARSONS, weaponeer, Enola Gay and Joint Chief,
Project Alberta
Colonel Hazen PAYETTE, intelligence officer, Project Alberta
Rear-Admiral WR PURNELL, Joint Chief, Project Alberta
Dr Norman RAMSEY, Deputy Chief, Project Alberta
Dr Robert SERBER, scientist, Project Alberta
General Carl SPAATZ, Commander of US Army Strategic Forces
Sergeant Abe SPITZER, radio operator, Bockscar
Captain James VAN PELT, navigator, Bockscar
Japanese Leadership
General Korechika ANAMI, 58, Minister of War
HIROHITO, Emperor
Naotake SATO, 62, Japanese Ambassador to the USSR
Baron Kantaro SUZUKI, 78, Prime Minister
Shigenori TOGO, 62, Foreign Minister
Genki ABE, Home Minister
Lieutenant-General Seizo ARISUE, army Chief of Intelligence
Captain Mitsuo FUCHIDA, navys Hiroshima investigation team
Field Marshal Shunruku HATA, army commander of south-west Japan
Baron Kiichiro HIRANUMA, president of the Privy Council
Koki HIROTA, former Prime Minister
Lieutenant-General Sumihisa IKEDA, chief of army budget planning
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