Group    From 6/8/1945  To 9/8/1945

Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims and survivors

Categories: Tragedy

Countries: Japan

The atomic bomb named "Little Boy" was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan by the Enola Gay, a Boeing B-29 bomber, on 6 August at 8:15 in the morning. "Fat Man" was dropped on Nagasaki by the Bockscar, on 9 August at 11:01 in the morning.

About 100,000 people were killed in Hiroshima and up to 80,000 in Nagasaki.

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims and survivors

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Hiroshima - College Place - mural

In 2022 Geoff Staden kindly sent us the photo of the mural and the following ...

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Hiroshima - College Place - plaque

We believe this plaque was erected in 1985, the 40th anniversary of Hiroshima...

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Hiroshima tree - Furnivall Gardens

This tree is a memorial to the dead of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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Hiroshima victims

Since 1950 CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) has organised an annual cer...

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Nuclear bombs

After our first visit in 2015 it was only when we got the photo home that we ...

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Michael Standring

Michael Standring

British, killed by the Bali bomb, age 31.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
John Raisin

John Raisin

A recruitment consultant, killed in the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster, aged 61. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out further research: John D. B. Raisin was born on 26 August 1938, the son of Alec R...

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
David Taylor

David Taylor

David Earl Taylor. Born Glasgow. Employed at the Silvertown Brunner Mond works and killed in the 1917 Silvertown explosion. Imperial War Museum has a page: "On January 29, the Birmingham Post wrote...

Person, Tragedy, Scotland

1 memorial
Sarah Ann Whitehouse

Sarah Ann Whitehouse

Drowned in the 1898 HMS Albion disaster, aged 21. Buried in grave 4 at the memorial in East London Cemetery.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
Angelika Helene Kohnke

Angelika Helene Kohnke

Non-British, killed by the Bali bomb.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial