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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Godwin Forde

Godwin Forde

United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Godwin O. Forde was born on 30 September 1962 in Paddington. Along with his twin, Doran L. Forde, they wer...

Person, Tragedy, USA

1 memorial
Christopher Jones

Christopher Jones

United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Christopher David Jones was born on 14 September 1947 in Heswall, Cheshire. He was the son of David Jones ...

Person, Tragedy, USA

1 memorial
Venera Minakhmetova

Venera Minakhmetova

From London24: "Ms Minakhmetova, a former City financial analyst from Bethnal Green, set up her own business in June 2013 called Simple2Connect, a location-based professional networking application...

Person, Cyclist, Tragedy, Russia

1 memorial
Melanie Louise de Vere

Melanie Louise de Vere

United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Melanie Louise de Vere was born on 15 March 1971 in Plymouth, Devon. She was the second of the three child...

Person, Tragedy, USA

1 memorial
Anne Moffat

Anne Moffat

Anne Moffat was born on 25 December 1956 in Lanark, Scotland, the daughter of Thomas Anderson Moffat (1918-1992) and Anne Moffat née Chambers (1922-2002). She was a communications manager for Girl...

Person, Tragedy, Scotland

2 memorials