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.

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

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki - N19

The ideograms are Japanese Kanji characters forming the word Heiwa which is o...

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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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Oliver Bennett

Oliver Bennett

United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Oliver Duncan Bennett was born on 8 April 1972 and his birth was registered in the Hammersmith registratio...

Person, Tragedy, USA

1 memorial
Peter Bradbury

Peter Bradbury

Peter Bradbury was born on 13 April 1951 the son of Jack Bradbury (1912-1972) and Lilian Mary Bradbury née Warburton (1912-1979). His birth was registered in the 2nd quarter of 1951 in the Leeds, W...

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
Graham Berkeley

Graham Berkeley

United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Graham Andrew Berkeley was born on 12 January 1964 in Nottinghamshire. He had moved to the United States ...

Person, Tragedy, USA

1 memorial
Those affected by the Smithfield V2 rocket attack, 8 March 1945

Those affected by the Smithfield V2 rocket attack, 8 March 1945

110 people were killed by this bomb. From the memorial creators: "While the loss of life was terrible, the number of injured was even higher and those others affected though loss of livelihood, fri...

Group, Tragedy

1 memorial

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P. Fenton

P. Fenton

Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial