Photographs of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

by the Manhattan Engineer District


Figure 19:
Aerial view looking directly down on X in Hiroshima, showing the target area completely leveled except for reinforced concrete building frames. Roofs and intermediate floors collapsed on five of these buildings leaving the exterior walls partially standing. The dark spots on the roofs of other buildings are depressions formed by the downward distortion of the roof structure.

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Aerial view looking directly down on X in Hiroshima, showing the target area completely leveled except for reinforced concrete building frames. Roofs and intermediate floors collapsed on five of these buildings leaving the exterior walls partially standing.  The dark spots on the roofs of other buildings are depressions formed by the downward distortion of the roof structure.