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Bombing of Hiroshima

Name: Bombing of Hiroshima – Japan factsheet records
Creator: World History Database

Japan · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

3Records

1945Date range

3Named people

1Places

Chronological records

1945

Senkichi Awaya6 August 1945

Hiroshima · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Dies when the uranium bomb destroys Hiroshima.

Hirohito9 August 1945

Hiroshima · Warfare / World War, 2nd

The USA drops a plutonium bomb on Hiroshima. More than 10 sqr miles are obliterated & 137,000 killed

Suziki KantaroAugust 1945

Hiroshima · Warfare / World War, 2nd

The Us drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima

Names involved

HirohitoSenkichi AwayaSuziki Kantaro

Provenance

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