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Nagasaki, Japan under atomic bomb attack – Historic Print

Nagasaki, Japan under atomic bomb attack, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
Nagasaki, Japan under atomic bomb attack, [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Nagasaki, Japan under atomic bomb attack. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The Army Air Forces photoprint shows Nagasaki under atomic attack, the city in the moments after the bombing of August 9, 1945, when the plutonium bomb nicknamed Fat Man detonated over its industrial and residential districts. The bombing killed tens of thousands of people within days and helped bring the Pacific War to an end. The caption card gives no date, and the record notes that its data is old and has been revised, so the attribution rests on the wartime military source. Aerial views from this period were often taken from aircraft flying alongside the bomber and were used to assess the damage.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint by USAAF #A-58450. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,282 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-118869

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