Atomic Bomb

When the atomic bomb dropped we had a little dugout in the camp. We went in there. I don't know, we weren't too far from the atomic bomb, maybe 70 miles. It was bad. The worst part of it for me was the 14 days after I went through where the bomb dropped to go to the harbor to try and get on a ship, wait for a ship and there was still craters on the ground, fire, you know. And like railroad tracks, everything was melted. And on the outskirts of the city there were mothers and little children begging for help, you know, mercy. I couldn't take that. That gave me a nervous breakdown.

Mr. Bourbonniere talks about what it was like seeing some of the aftermath of the atomic bomb.

Armand Bourbonniere

Armand Bourbonniere was born on May 7th 1922 in Ericksdale, Manitoba. He was the youngest of ten children. His father worked in the dairy transportation business. Mr. Bourbonniere left school when he was 14 years old to work for his father picking up cream and eggs from local farms until he turned sixteen when he moved to Winnipeg and worked at a cleaning company picking up clothes until he joined the Army in September 1939.