History: Atomic Bombing Of Hiroshima, Japan

- Seven Dutch POWs (two names known) died in the bombing.
- At least two POWs reportedly died postwar from cancer thought to have been caused by the atomic bomb.
The radius of total destruction was about a mile (1–2 km), followed by fires across the northern portion of the city to two miles (3 km) south of the bomb.
One American POW, Joe Kieyoomia, was in Nagasaki at the time of the bombing but survived, reportedly having been shielded from the effects of the bomb by the concrete walls of his cell.