What Happened To The Bodies At Hiroshima And Nagasaki?

Unknown deaths, bodies turned into specimens, and water being a death sentence. The bodies at Hiroshima and Nagasaki went through so much more than you think.

Hiroshima #Nagasaki #History

Unknown death toll | 0:00
Mass cremations | 1:22
Scientific study | 2:21
Repatriation | 3:33
Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound | 4:41
Last rites | 5:48
The shadows | 6:40
The dying | 7:35
Cause of death | 8:49
Lingering consequences | 9:57

[GrungeHQ]

What do you think of Harry Truman's decision to use the atomic bomb during WWII?

[RevLeigh]

My dad served in the Navy during WWII. He was in Nagasaki two weeks after the blast and even took some photos of the devastation. Walking wounded were everywhere. Later many babies were born with birth defects due to the radiation. My Dad became very anti-war after that experience and was anti-war during the Vietnam War. The guys who experienced war were not like John Wayne and others who made plenty of war movies but never saw real combat. The real veterans know the horrors of war.

[lindanwfirefighter]

When I was in grade school in the 70s in Canada, a Japanese lady came to speak to us. She had been a child when the bomb went off. She had been wearing a flowered dress that day. The flowers on her dress had absorbed more of the flash burns from the blast and literally burned the flower shapes in to her skin which later developed into keloid scars. She showed them to us. She was forever carrying a reminder of that day.

[NYmomAdrienne]

War is evil. As I listen to this, I also picture Unit 731. Innocent civilians always pay the price of their governments

[malicemike]

Imagine being an innocent kind hearted person and dying for things you didn't do just because you lived somewhere.

[deborahczepiel]

my dad was stationed in the Phillipines, he had to board a ship early in the morning with no idea where they were going. my dad was an officer and was called to a meeting on board and told they were invading Japan. He could say nothing to his men but he was sad because he knew most would be dead. some time after that he noticed the ship turning around, we had dropped the bomb. He served over there during the occupation to set up schools for the children and get life going again for Japan. he said the Japanese officers were very cooperative and even took him on a tour of Hiroshima. I don't know how it was safe to do that but he lived a healthy life till 97 so I guess it was ok.

[sandyworkman]

The ones who died instantly were lucky. My heart goes out for the survivors.

[tombombadilofficial]

*Its just unbelievable how, through out the ages, humanity has been in an endless cycle of devoting time, effort, resources and cutting-edge innovation into the single purpose of bringing death and destruction to his fellow man.*

[larsondarcy]

For the sake of accuracy Midori Naka was not rescued from the remains of her destroyed house, she was fished out of the river. She had jumped in the water after she had extricated herself from the ruins because everything was in flames. She gave a description of what had happened to her after the bomb went off and it can be found on her Wikipedia page. Great video though as usual, thank-you.

[angelsone-five]

I would rather die in an instant than go through all the grief of surviving with massive complications.

[dannydonnelly]

During the 1980s I had a small company that did property repairs and maintenance. I often worked for real estate companies. I met a realtor that was a Japanese woman. She was a young girl during WWII and lived through the bombing of Tokyo. I wish I had had a tape recorder at the time. Once she started talking and telling me her story, she didn't stop for almost 3 hours. It was an absolutely incredible story. She told me how her older sister at take her by the hand and was running through the city looking for a way to escape. She remembers having two different shoes on her feet. At one point they were trying to get onto a small boat to escape the bombing on the land. Just as they were about to board they will pushed back in the boat left without them. A moment later a bomb struck the boat in everyone on board was killed. Ultimately her sister decided they would go to the American cemetery in Tokyo. It was there they were able to survive the bombing. They assumed the Americans would not bomb their own cemetery furthermore there would be no reason to bomb any cemetery. She told me that in the following days and weeks the Americans arrived. They were ordered to assemble in a theater by an American Commander. She told me she was afraid they were going to kill everyone inside the theater. Instead it was the beginning of a new future. It was the beginning of the Marshall plan. They were shown a film that informed them of what was going to happen to the Japanese people. They were also fed and treated humanely by The Americans. This was very unexpected as they had resigned themselves to be killed by The Americans. There's nothing more heartbreaking than war.

[kendonaldson]

My father was on the ships heading west for the invasion of the Japanese mainland when Pres. Truman ordered the bombs dropped. They arrived in Hiroshima about 3 days after the Nagasaki bombing. He was a heavy equipment operator. His platoon dug massive trenches to bury the dead. The US government would not admit to knowing the danger from the radiation, and a number of those guys developed cancer from it, Dad included.

[RadicalEdward]

For those curious where some of the anime footage is from, it’s from a REALLY dark film called Barefoot Gen. It’s a story about a child that survived BOTH the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. It’s so dark that having seen only some of the scenes from it (the less graphic scenes being in this video but the more graphic parts like that girl in the beginning melting) are the only ones I could stomach watching.
Even though the film is EXTREMELY graphic, I would highly recommend watching it as an educational account of the effects of the bombing. The film was also made by a survivor.

[desertratPS]

My father was a Marine in the 5th Division assigned to Nagasaki in the weeks after the bombing. He died in 1981 aat age 57 of radiation poisoning from being in Nagasaki for 6 months.

[chuckchin]

may history never repeat this to any human being...RIP

[ivonnehowe]

He said that the smell was horrible and he will never in his life forgot it. My dad developed some tumors behind his ears and lost his hearing after a while..

[misskitty]

My father was 17 and on a troop ship headed for a D-Day style invasion of Japan, when the war ended. They hoped to go home but were sent to occupy Japan. He developed a fungal lung ailment, histoplasmosis, from being around the bodies. He never spoke of these horrors, we only found out about it when he got his diagnosis and even then denied it to us. The bomb was a horror for us all. I myself developed cancer from being down wind of atomic testing in Nevada in the 1950s.

[partin]

“War is cruelty. There is no need to try to reform it. The crueler it is, the quicker it is over.” -Gen. Sherman

[robd]

Like all wars, the greed of a few leads to the suffering of the many.

[George-vfss]

"It's hard to beat someone that doesn't want to quit."
Mike Tyson