Thanks Simon!
One question (amongst many one could ask) would be how could this individual have been 'inside' a 248db soundwave & yet have perfectly fine hearing? Nor remember hearing any sound... except the cries of the dying? She therefore, based on her own testimony, did not even have ruptured ear drums yet IIRC that's loud enough to kill.
It is simply a ludicrous story... it's quite appropriate (if somewhat disappointing for John) that a python was there.
A question for any 'scholars' out there... where are the deaf people of Hiroshima & Nagasaki (or for that matter the 6000+ wounded of 9/11)?
I suppose nobody has bothered to create them yet.
More of these 'survivors' & 'eyewitnesses'...
The Japanese Historian & survivor of Hiroshima who dedicated his life to honoring the US military!
He pops up regularly...
Film tells story of Lowell POW killed in Hiroshima
The true story of an American POW on the ground in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and the Japanese man who has fought for his legacy.Frechette's planning to use the money to make another trip to Japan, to conduct a second interview with Shigeaki Mori, whose story intersects powerfully with Brissette's.
Mori was just 8 when the bombing rocked his city.
He spent the decades after that tracking down the 12 American POWs who died in the bombing, including Brissette, and working to get their names added to the official list of victims of the bombing, alongside tens of thousands of Japanese.
Hiroshima historian returns fragments of shot-down bomber to loved ones in U.S.My research uncovered many details about what Mr. Mori had done for these Americans. His personal sacrifice for them. And I had to know why. He saw the effects of that bomb firsthand, and what it did to his friends and family. It would take a very special person to look past all that. We were the enemy. What would drive this man to spend so much time and effort to recognize them? To reach out to their families and provide comfort. And often closure.
Nagasaki memorial adds British POW as A-bomb victimThe homecoming of the fragments was made possible after more than three decades of dedicated research by Shigeaki Mori, 70, a Hiroshima historian and a survivor of the U.S. atomic bomb that incinerated his city. He has devoted himself to honoring Americans who died in his hometown.
Historian tells of Americans POWs killed at HiroshimaShigeaki Mori, a 68-year-old historian in Hiroshima, came across Shaw’s record while doing research on American POWs who were killed in the bombing.
Shaw was captured after his plane was shot down by Japanese forces near the island of Java in what is now Indonesia, and was sent to a prison camp in Nagasaki, where he died in the atomic bombing, according to Mori.
Mori said he was contacted by Shaw’s relatives after several British newspapers reported on his research in May. Until then, the family did not know Shaw died in the atomic bombing, he said.
Memorial For U.S. POWs at site of Chugoku Kempei-Tai HQ at HiroshimaHiroshima’s mayor adds names to the official atomic bomb memorial book each year, Mori said. It lists approximately 222,000 known victims. In 2002, approval was granted to add two of the U.S. POWs: Staff Sgt. Ralph Neal and Petty Officer 3rd Class Norman Brissette. Mori said he hopes to get permission to add a third, Staff Sgt. Charles O. Baumgartner.
“I believe those up there (spirits of victims) will appreciate your prayers offered to them,” Mori told the audience.
Installed in 1999, by the efforts and personal funds of Hiroshima resident, and A-bomb survivor, Shigeaki Mori. At least 12 American POWs were killed in the atomic bomb blast, while being held at the Kempei-Tai (miltary police) HQ, near the hypocenter. These POWs were from the crews of four American aircraft that went down in the area. Today, the former HQ, today an office building.
Nuclear pain
Quite a few good stories in that last article including another silly 'double A-bomb' survivor...I photographed Shigeaki Mori in the beautifully kept Commonwealth War Cemetery, in Yokohama, beside a plaque bearing Corporal Shaw’s name. As I stood nearby, Mori-san was lost in thought, then slowly he dropped to his knees to pray.
'I saw both of the bombs and lived'
Other 'US victims' of Hiroshima...The modest Mrs Sadamaru refuses to be photographed, but did permit pictures of her Red Cross cap 'because I'm proud I was a nurse'.
Hidden History: American POWS Were Killed in Hiroshima
One of the captured Americans recalled the “spooky ride” to Ujina: no houses standing, nothing moving, not even a dog, and the policeman yelling, “One bomb! One bomb!”
Along the way they came across two more American prisoners: a navy aviator and an Air Force sergeant. They were suffering from nausea, with green liquid dripping from their mouths and ears. Held in Hiroshima when the bomb hit, they had survived by jumping into a cesspool. Clearly, they were suffering from radiation disease, but no one at the time knew anything about it.