Piece of A-bomb-scorched clothing

Piece of A-bomb-scorched clothing

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken at the Ground Self-Defense Force Medical School in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward shows a piece of clothing (bottom) scorched in the shape of diamond patterns by the heat rays of the 1945 atomic bomb dropped over Hiroshima, and an explanatory text about it (above). The item was apparently brought back to Tokyo from Hiroshima by a research team of the former imperial Japanese army that was sent to the western Japanese city immediately after the bombing on Aug. 6, 1945, according to school officials.

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