[Two female firefighters demonstrate the use of hand-drawn hose reels, Hiroshima]

[Broken glass and distorted windows of Japan Steel Company, Building 20, Hiroshima]

[Buckling of heavy, reinforced-concrete wall of Teikoku Bank Company, Hiroshima branch]

[View of burned-over area with Hiroshima Kirin Beer Hall at far right]

[Open stairs through which fire did not spread, Hiroshima Communications Hospital]

[People walking through the ruins of Hiroshima in the weeks following the atomic bomb blast]

[Burned-over landscape with Nagarekawa Church of the Japan Christian Society in the foreground, Hiroshima]

[Interior showing typical damage to roof, Red Cross Building interior, Hiroshima]