Group    From 6/8/1945  To 9/8/1945

Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims and survivors

Categories: Tragedy

Countries: Japan

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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Inam Bashir

Inam Bashir

One of two killed by the Docklands IRA bomb. They were both workers in the newsagent’s directly opposite the bomb. Our colleague Andrew Behan has researched this man and found the photo: there is ...

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
DC Jim Morrison

DC Jim Morrison

Detective Constable with the Metropolitan Police. Fatally stabbed when, although off duty, he attempted to arrest a bag thief and died, aged 26, on 13 December 1991. Posthumously awarded the Queen'...

Person, Emergency Services, Tragedy, Scotland

1 memorial
Ernest Benning

Ernest Benning

For more information about this hero click on the picture of his plaque.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
Cyril Richard (Rick) Rescorla

Cyril Richard (Rick) Rescorla

United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Colonel Cyril Richard Rescorla was born on 27 May 1939 in Halye, Cornwall. He was a son of Stephen Douglas...

Person, Armed Forces, Emergency Services, Tragedy, Africa, Cyprus, USA, Vietnam

1 memorial
Harold Frank Ricketts

Harold Frank Ricketts

For more information about this hero click on the picture of his plaque.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial