Hiroshima

This was some weeks after the bombs dropped that we went to Sasebo and into the inter Inland Sea. We visited Nagasaki first and were able to see what an atomic bomb, bomb can do although that, that they missed, they wanted to. There's like two hollowed out area, areas and they wanted to bomb, bomb both areas and I think they missed getting the major effect. But then we went to Kure, which is the naval, big naval base, which is normally far away from Hiroshima, that we had time to visit Hiroshima, which is four square miles of absolute charred devastation and the roads had been cleared a little bit. I noticed there was no American, no American personnel there at all, whether they realized about radiation, I don't know. A few policemen, and pathetic Japanese families poking around some of the, the area, if there's anything left. The, the buildings, a few buildings made of concrete, were, stood. We kind of went a tour of them and they were not terrible damaged in a sense, but the rest of it was just rubble and so we saw, what you call a, a truly bombed city.