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Old 12-19-2010, 09:50 PM   #111
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Default Re: Interesting random facts.

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Originally Posted by Lumpold View Post
The day after the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japanese trains were still running from the town. Many people used them to escape the devastation wrecked town. Hundreds of people boarded one particular train, unknowingly jumping from the frying pan in to the fire. The train they boarded was headed to Nagasaki.

In 2009, Tsutomu Yamaguchi was officially recognised by the Japanese Government as double Hibakushu. He had been in Hiroshima on the 6th, 3km from the epicentre of the bomb, and on business, when Little Boy landed, and then returned home to Nagasaki the day after, on the aforementioned train, only to be home when Fat Boy was dropped two days later. He died in 2010 from stomach cancer, at the age of 93.
Is he the one who was describing the Hiroshima blast to his family just as the Nagasaki bomb went off? I've read that guy's story.
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