Hajime Miyatake 宮武甫 (1914-1985), who belonged to the Photo Department of the Osaka Head Office of the Asahi Shimbun, came to Hiroshima as a photographer for the Intelligence Team of the Chubu Regional Military Headquarters. He arrived in Hiroshima the evening of the 9th and took most of his photos on the 10th and 11th. Four days later (probably the 12th), the team returned to Osaka. Of the photos Miyatake snapped less than a week after the atomic bombing, 121 remain. https://hpmmuseum.jp/virtual/VirtualMuseum_e/exhibit_e/exh0603_e/exh060301_e.html
Woman with severe facial burns. The depth of the burns suggests that the heat ray struck her frontally outdoors. She was laid on a straw mat with a bottle of water placed nearby, but the dirt under the mat suggests an outside location.Boy being treated for burns at a Red Cross Hospital.
Converted to a military hospital under the war administration, it hospitalized soldiers only, but treated civilians on an outpatient basis. The institution had a comparatively large stockpile of medicines and supplies, but the stocks were quickly used up on endless waves of new patients. The photo shows a boy being treated on his forehead, cheeks, and hands for burns he suffered from frontal exposure to the heat ray.Injured children
The child in the middle has received first aid for his/her head injury. The children appear to be lying on metal sheets. The child in back appears to be an infant. The rubble next to the sheet suggests that they are outside.Family heading home after out-patient hospital treatment
Approx. 2,350m from the hypocenter, Minami-machi 2-chome
The photo shows the family going "home" after treatment, with the Hiroshima Regional Monopoly Bureau in the background. Burned on her left arm and both legs, the mother is unable to walk. The daughter (then, six years old) is burned on her left arm and face. Her bandaged head, her face entirely lathered with white ointment and so swollen she cannot see-all tug at the heart.Soldier burned on the face and hands
Approx. 710m from the hypocenter, Ebisu-cho
All the exposed skin of this soldier, who faced the heat ray directly, was burned.Truck Carrying the Injured
Approx. 920m from the hypocenter, in front of Nippon Kangyo Bank Hiroshima Branch, Kami-nagarekawa-cho (now, Ebisu-cho)
After the bombing, the city was forced to set up relief stations in the neighboring counties of Aki, Saeki, and Asa. When these filled beyond capacity, the injured were dispatched by train, truck, and boat to even further flung cities, towns, and villages. Virtually no existing photos show this transport process.
A seated rescue worker feeds a little girl bits of a rice ball from a bowl placed near her head.Horribly disfigured corpse of an atomic bomb victimSoldiers are cremated one after another at a temporary crematorium set up on the south side of the Fukuya department store in Hatchobori. Many soldiers who were exposed to the atomic bomb at the West Parade Ground and other locations were taken to the Fukuya department store, which had escaped collapse, but they died one after another and were cremated.A general view from the Hiroshima Higashi Police Station on Aug. 10, 1945, in Hiroshima, Japan.Inari-machi Streetcar Bridge
Approx. 1,350m from the hypocenter, Shimo-yanagi-cho (now, Kanayama-cho)
The blast bent and buckled the rails. Fire charred some of the ties. Because the main Inari Bridge (running next to the streetcar bridge) toppled on August 6, many fled the city center across the railroad bridge seeking refuge at the Eastern Drill Ground and elsewhere.
Hajime Miyatake 宮武甫 (1914-1985), who belonged to the Photo Department of the Osaka Head Office of the Asahi Shimbun, came to Hiroshima as a photographer for the Intelligence Team of the Chubu Regional Military Headquarters. He arrived in Hiroshima the evening of the 9th and took most of his photos on the 10th and 11th. Four days later (probably the 12th), the team returned to Osaka. Of the photos Miyatake snapped less than a week after the atomic bombing, 121 remain.
