Victims of pumpkin bombs commemorated in Osaka

Victims of pumpkin bombs commemorated in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Children pray for the victims of "pumpkin bombs," conventional bombs almost the same weight and shape of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, in front of a monument in Osaka on July 26, 2014, after a memorial service. A total of 49 such bombs are believed to have been dropped in Japan between July and August 1945 during World War II.

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