People Who Survived What Should Have Been Instant Death

Survivor Of Hiroshima And Nagasaki

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Tsutomu Yamaguchi was preparing to leave Hiroshima when the atomic bomb fell. The former naval engineer was on a three-month-long business trip and his last day of the trip was the day of the bombings. Yamaguchi was badly burned in the blast, and both his eardrums were ruptured.

After the blast, he made his way to the train station with two coworkers who also survived. They began the trip to his hometown of Nagasaki where Yamaguchi’s wife and child lived. The journey back was a total nightmare. At one point, Yamaguchi was forced to swim through a layer of floating dead bodies.