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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Kennington Park air-raid

Kennington Park air-raid

Following the outbreak of World War II, there was a variety of designs for shelters designed to protect the populace from air-raids. For those who didn't have Anderson or Morrison shelters or acces...

Event, Tragedy

1 memorial
Lise Tanghus Knudsen

Lise Tanghus Knudsen

Non-British, killed by the Bali bomb.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
Jessica Maree O’Donnell

Jessica Maree O’Donnell

Non-British, killed by the Bali bomb.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
Makram Ali

Makram Ali

Makram was killed after Ramadan night prayers at Muslim Welfare House, next to Finsbury Park tube station. The van-driving terrorist (whom we deliberately will not name) was sentenced in February ...

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
Reginald Adams

Reginald Adams

Demolition worker, employed by A & R Metal Company, killed in the Dudgeon's Wharf explosion. Andrew Behan has researched Adams: Reginald Thomas Adams was born on 3 May 1940. In 1962 he married...

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial