An interesting read is ‘Last Train From Hiroshima’. Tells about the group of people who, having survived the Hiroshima bomb, fled to safety in... Nagasaki, arriving just in time for that bomb to drop. Personal accounts of people who survived both bombs.... Rare birds, indeed.
One of my distant relatives, Lt. Durden William Looper, was on board the B24 Liberator Lonesome Lady when it was shot down over Japan. The surviving crewmen were brought into Hiroshima where they were held, together with other captured American airmen, in the local Japanese military police headquarters by chance, less than eight hundred yards from where the Enola Gay’s atom bomb was soon to explode. All the prisoners and their guards were killed, or died soon after.
Here’s a link to a book written about the incident.
http://www.amazon.com/Date-Lonesome-Lady-Hiroshima-Returns/dp/1571686304
Way back when... I was in a training course for Nuclear, Biological and Chemical (NBC) defense officers for my squadron. Our instructor mentioned that his instructor at the “Instructors” course was married to a Japanese woman. She had been an infant with her family hiding in a bomb shelter near Ground Zero at Hiroshima.
Both she and their children we normal.
Way back when... I was in a training course for Nuclear, Biological and Chemical (NBC) defense officers for my squadron. Our instructor mentioned that his instructor at the “Instructors” course was married to a Japanese woman. She had been an infant with her family hiding in a bomb shelter near Ground Zero at Hiroshima.
Both she and their children we normal.