Hiroshima museum to obtain rare A-bomb photos
HIROSHIMA, Aug. 4 Kyodo - The Hiroshima Peace
Memorial Museum will shortly receive two
rare photos of downtown Hiroshima taken several
weeks after the U.S. atomic bomb attack on
Aug. 6, 1945.
The photos, owned by Samuel Price of Florida,
a 74-year-old former U.S. sailor, were among
a group of photos believed to have been taken
''by Allied personnel very soon after the
bombing,'' said Koichiro Maeda, the museum's
deputy director.
One of the black-and-white photos shows U.S.
soldiers on a truck on the Kyobashi Bridge,
located 1.4 kilometers northeast of ground
zero. Behind them is a department store that
withstood the explosion, while most buildings
were reduced to rubble.
The other photo shows the same department
store and a graveyard.
The photos were taken by a military friend
of Price's who entered the city with about
40 soldiers, including Price in late September
of the year.
Price, who visited the museum in March, said
he decided to donate the photos to the museum
because it contained fewer photos taken shortly
after the bombing than he expected.
==Kyodo
