Dramatic Never Before Published Images of Hiroshima in Immediate Aftermath of Bombing (Very Graphic)

yawoot image collections ^ | May 3, 2008 | Staff

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The Robert L. Capp collection at the Hoover Institution Archives contains ten never-before-published photographs illustrating the immediate aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing.

These photographs, taken by an unknown Japanese photographer, were found in 1945 among rolls of undeveloped film in a cave outside Hiroshima by U.S. serviceman Robert L. Capp, who was attached to the occupation forces.
Unlike most photos of the Hiroshima bombing, these dramatically convey the human as well as material destruction unleashed by the atomic bomb.

Mr. Capp donated them to the Hoover Archives in 1998 with the provision that they not be reproduced until 2008. Three of these photographs are reproduced in Atomic Tragedy with the permission of the Capp family. The entire set is available below.

[freerepublic_or_die]

I view these images and all I can see are sunken battleships, black-palled skies, a fiery inferno of dying, dead sailors, boys dying in a flash entombed in listing ships, kamikazes, heads chopped off, civilians butchered, raped, decapitated, experimened on, tortured, starved/marched to death, used for bayonet practice and more, too much, much more......

These images won't evince the slightest bit of emotionalism out of me.

War is hell. The Japs gave us war, we gave 'em hell.

[joebuck]

No more graphic than pictures from Pearl Harbor.

[1rudeboy]

Funny that you are arguing that “war is hell,” except when it isn’t.

[misterrob]

I say damn on the Japanese for taking away a slice of our collective humanity and forcing our hand.

[kingattax]

dont forget the bataan death march.

[TigersEye]

The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved American lives and saved Japanese lives. The lesson is ‘don’t make war.’ I think the Japanese learned it.

[freerepublic_or_die]

...tortured, starved/marched to death,

[Richard Kimball]

Wonder if they were still thinking Pearl Harbor was a good idea.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Japan could have avoided the last act (1944-45 where more than 1 million died) because even though they knew they were whipped, the Bashido mentality still ruled amongst the militarists and Emperor Hirohito. Over and over, the Japanese chose to not mention their defeats to one another. The loss at the Coral Sea & Midway and the crushing loss in the Marianas was not generally know in Japan. The Japanese Army was prepared to take another atom bomb, even on Tokyo, if they could fight on with the emperor’s blessing.

[null and void]

Then, Pearl Harbor lead to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Now Japan no longer seeks to violently impose its will on the world.

I can only hope that 9-11 will as inevitably lead to Mecca and Medina.

And that islam learns the same ultimate lesson.

[Rebelbase]

The worst of those photos doesn’t represent a fraction of the status-quo brutality inflicted on Allied POW’s, or Chinese and Korean civilians by the Japanese during the war.

Yeah, it’s moral relativism and it puts into perspective why we had to did it.

[NRA2BFree]

dont forget the bataan death march.

I won't. I lost 3 uncles in the Bataan Death March!

[PAR35]

They say that there were rolls of film, but they only came up with 10 images.

[Bullish]

Maybe they shouldn’t have F’d with us?

[kcm.org]

There used to be movies of the aftermath, showing remains as no more than shadows on wall and sidewalks.

Wonder if the PC crowd has censored those away?

[1rudeboy]

I’d just like someone to explain the logic behind why I can’t lament the loss of life.

[Ikemeister]

As an old Army Master Sergeant I knew used to say, “If you don’t start no s__t, there won’t be no S__t.”

[LSUfan]

The Rape of Nanking: 300,000 massacred by the Japanese

Bataan Death March

[beebuster2000]

wow. that was some bomb. easy to see why it hasnt been used since

[The Mayor]

My God.