The target: Hiroshima. In Hiroshima the air raid sirens had sounded twice that morning already. On both occasions the all clear followed swiftly. Enola Gay faced no resistance as it dropped the bomb.

"While the memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are fading from ... Our teacher had taught us to go to an air-raid shelter in case of emergency, so I looked for my mother inside the house, and ...

The war had led to widespread food shortages, so she was plagued by hunger, and the previous night - like many nights before it - US B-29 bombers had flown over Hiroshima, triggering air raid sirens.

He burrowed into an air raid shelter by himself ... was the very least I could do for them as a way of atonement.” In Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the atomic bombings left both mental and physical ...

In this series, The Asahi Shimbun traces the impact on children of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ... said damage from a U.S. air raid in central Nagasaki was “beyond imagination.” ...