Sixty-six years ago, Hiroshima was turned into a burning inferno as the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city.
Keijiro Matsushima was 16 years old when he witnessed the attack which claimed roughly 100,000 lives in one day.
He recalls how August 6, 1945, was a beautiful day, with a blue sky. Keijiro had returned to school only a week earlier, after he and his peers were mobilised to work for a year and a half in a factory producing military uniforms.
At 8.15 in the morning, his class had just started. He was listening to his teacher explaining a question on differential and integral calculus.
"I was looking out through the window and saw two American B-29 bombers. I just thought 'American planes again', assuming they were out for some routine work."
When he looked back at his books, the bomb exploded. More...
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Keijiro Matsushima was 16 years old when he witnessed the attack which claimed roughly 100,000 lives in one day.
He recalls how August 6, 1945, was a beautiful day, with a blue sky. Keijiro had returned to school only a week earlier, after he and his peers were mobilised to work for a year and a half in a factory producing military uniforms.
At 8.15 in the morning, his class had just started. He was listening to his teacher explaining a question on differential and integral calculus.
"I was looking out through the window and saw two American B-29 bombers. I just thought 'American planes again', assuming they were out for some routine work."
When he looked back at his books, the bomb exploded. More...
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