Charles P. Gorry (1912-1976) was a news photographer who portrayed wars, the waning days of colonialism in Asia and many of the world’s leaders during his career with The Associated Press.
Mr. Gorry covered World War II in the Pacific, spending 60 days on the front at Okinawa and scaling the slopes of Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima while the fighting raged. He was aboard the aircraft carrier. Intrepid when Japanese suicide planes struck the flight deck on Nov. 26. He photographed Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the bombings.
Hiroshima, Japan, still is a city of ruined buildings and vacant patches amid simple new structures, as seen in this air view made on July 20, 1946, almost one year after the atomic bomb burst there on August 6. Aerial view of the city one year after the atomic bomb blast, shows some small amount of reconstruction amid much ruin in Hiroshima, Japan on July 20, 1946.Disabled buses that have littered the streets of Tokyo are used to help relieve the acute housing shortage in the Japanese capital on October 2, 1946. Japanese who hauled the buses into a vacant lot are converting them into homes for their families. An aerial view of Hiroshima, Japan, one year after the atomic-bomb blast shows some small amount of reconstruction amid much ruin on July 20, 1946. The slow pace of rebuilding is attributed to a shortage of building equipment and materials. New buildings (right) rise out of the ruins of Hiroshima, Japan, on March 11, 1946. These single-story homes built along a hard-surfaced highway are part of the program by the Japanese government to rebuild devastated sections of the country. At left background are damaged buildings whose masonry withstood the effects of the first atomic bomb ever detonated as a weapon.An area near ground zero in Nagasaki where crops used to grow is now overgrown with weeds, Oct. 10, 1947.
