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Group    From 6/8/1945  To 9/8/1945

Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims and survivors

Categories: Tragedy

Countries: Japan

Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims and survivors

The atomic bomb named "Little Boy" was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan by the Enola Gay, a Boeing B-29 bomber, on 6 August at 8:15 in the morning. "Fat Man" was dropped on Nagasaki by the Bockscar, on 9 August at 11:01 in the morning.

About 100,000 people were killed in Hiroshima and up to 80,000 in Nagasaki.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims and survivors

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki - N19

The ideograms are Japanese Kanji characters forming the word Heiwa which is o...

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Hiroshima - College Place - mural

In 2022 Geoff Staden kindly sent us the photo of the mural and the following ...

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Hiroshima - College Place - plaque

We believe this plaque was erected in 1985, the 40th anniversary of Hiroshima...

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Hiroshima tree - Furnivall Gardens

This tree is a memorial to the dead of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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Hiroshima victims

Since 1950 CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) has organised an annual cer...

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Marie Joanne Hartley

Marie Joanne Hartley

Marie Joanne Targett was born on 18 June 1971 in Blackburn, Lancashire, the elder of the two children of John Norman Targett (1946-2007) and Barbara Targett née Sutcliffe (d.2008). Her brother, Ian...

Person, Tragedy

3 memorials
Station Officer Frederick Ernest Hawkins

Station Officer Frederick Ernest Hawkins

Firefighter who died as a result of a fire at Langley St, WC2. Hawkins, Rawden and Gadd died 11-23 May 1954. Frederick Ernest Hawkins was born on 28 June 1913 in Tottenham, Middlesex (now Greater ...

Person, Emergency Services, Tragedy

1 memorial
fire at 423 Hackney Road 1902

fire at 423 Hackney Road 1902

The East London Advertiser, 22 December 2008, published an article on this tragedy where 7 lives were lost, which we summarise here. Alice Denman, 27, and her 6 children lived in the upper floors ...

Event, Tragedy

1 memorial
Forrest Melvin Cox

Forrest Melvin Cox

Major Forrest Melvin Cox was born on 20 February 1916 in Carrollton, Greene County, Illinois, USA, the youngest of the three children of Joseph Ivan Cox (1891-1969) and Alta Maria Cox née Barrow (1...

Person, Armed Forces, Tragedy, USA

War served, WW2
1 memorial
Jamie Gordon

Jamie Gordon

On the Hyde Park memorial Jamie’s name is given as ‘Jamie Glenbucket-Gordon’. Our colleague, Andrew Behan, has researched this man and found that Jamie Hector Gregor Glenbucket Gordon was born on ...

Person, Tragedy

3 memorials