2,500 meters from epicenter, civilians flee and search for survivors, following dropping of atomic bomb on Nagasaki

[Dead mother and child, lying on the platform of the Uragami train station, victims of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki]

Hiroshima, directly after the fog cleared. Catholic Church in foreground.

the Cloth of the Thousand stitches is wanted by every pious soldier because every stitch, sewed by a different hand, is an added protection. This Boy Scout solicits stitches

[Militarized shrine in the home of Seguro Kizu, a Tokyo baker conscripted into the Japanese army]

[Aerial of ruins of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb blast]

[American troops near dead soldier in mortar hole during battle against Japanese for Iwo Jima during WWII.]

[May Day celebration, Tokyo]