Post by it_is_the_light on Sep 23rd, 2016 at 9:17am
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3802248/The-hidden-horrors-Nagasaki-Confiscated-photographs-devastating-effects-America-s-atomic-bomb-taken-12-hours-blast-revealed-70-years-on.html
The hidden horrors of Nagasaki: Confiscated photographs of the devastating effects of America's atomic bomb – taken 12 hours after the blast – are revealed 70 years on
Snaps were taken by Yosuke Yamahata, a Japanese military photographer who was tasked with documenting the destruction for propaganda purposes
The harrowing photos, some taken just 12 hours after the bomb was dropped, show scenes of destruction - a flattened landscape and mass death
The collection was confiscated by an unnamed US military policeman 70 years ago
The collection of poignant images taken by Yosuke Yamahata, a Japanese military photographer, show the flattened landscape, mass death and desperate plight of survivors immediately following the nuclear blast in Nagasaki, Japan
Haunting photographs taken the day after the Japanese city of Nagasaki was hit with an atomic bomb have emerged 70 years after being confiscated by American forces
Photographer Yosuke Yamahata, pictured in Shanghai in 1943 here, took the iconic snaps
Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower (left), who later became president, shaking hands with General MacArthur, who played a prominent role in the war against Japan. The photo, taken in 1946, shows a rare moment of tenderness between the two men, who are widely known to have disliked each other later on
Supreme Commander Eisenhower carrying out inspection in the historic snaps, which have not seen the light of day for 70 years
Yamahata was tasked with documenting the destruction for propaganda purposes and arrived at the scene just 12 hours later
His haunting photographs encapsulated the devastation left behind by the atomic bomb
They were requisitioned following a direct order from General Douglas MacArthur to seize and destroy any such pictures to shield the true scale of the carnage from the public back at home
The full album contains 24 photographs developed from Yamahata's original negatives
The hidden horrors of Nagasaki: Confiscated photographs of the devastating effects of America's atomic bomb – taken 12 hours after the blast – are revealed 70 years on
Snaps were taken by Yosuke Yamahata, a Japanese military photographer who was tasked with documenting the destruction for propaganda purposes
The harrowing photos, some taken just 12 hours after the bomb was dropped, show scenes of destruction - a flattened landscape and mass death
The collection was confiscated by an unnamed US military policeman 70 years ago
The collection of poignant images taken by Yosuke Yamahata, a Japanese military photographer, show the flattened landscape, mass death and desperate plight of survivors immediately following the nuclear blast in Nagasaki, Japan
Haunting photographs taken the day after the Japanese city of Nagasaki was hit with an atomic bomb have emerged 70 years after being confiscated by American forces
Photographer Yosuke Yamahata, pictured in Shanghai in 1943 here, took the iconic snaps
Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower (left), who later became president, shaking hands with General MacArthur, who played a prominent role in the war against Japan. The photo, taken in 1946, shows a rare moment of tenderness between the two men, who are widely known to have disliked each other later on
Supreme Commander Eisenhower carrying out inspection in the historic snaps, which have not seen the light of day for 70 years
Yamahata was tasked with documenting the destruction for propaganda purposes and arrived at the scene just 12 hours later
His haunting photographs encapsulated the devastation left behind by the atomic bomb
They were requisitioned following a direct order from General Douglas MacArthur to seize and destroy any such pictures to shield the true scale of the carnage from the public back at home
The full album contains 24 photographs developed from Yamahata's original negatives
