Lanier (APA 125) - Naval Cruise Book

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-- i OCCUPATION OF NAGASAKI-Continued anese working parties, who worked like beavers at the unloading process for 5Oc a day cmd a chance at American cigarettes or K Rations, aided the LANIER in its goal to be unloaded as soon as possible. The world's most destructive force-the atomic bomb-reduced to complete nothing- ness an area a half mile wide and a mile in length and further demolished three addi- tional square miles. The exploration was conducted by four LANIER boat officers, act- ing in the following capacities: Ensign W. P. Tuttle, photographer, Lt. ligl T. B. Thornton, reporter, Ensign H. L. Buckmaster, cigarette- bearer, and Lt. C. McGregor, two-striper. In walking up the paved highway which leads to the atomic bomb scene one can see the effects of previous bombings by United States planes. In the more congested city area many homes, shops of all kinds, official city buildings, etc., were all badly bombed, burned out or levelled. But the difference between this kind of bombing and that of the atomic variety was immediately obvious, once there was a chance to compare the two. The difference was this: there was something left to see where the ordinary bombs had ap- parently fallen. But where the full force of the atomic bomb was felt, three concrete archways stood alone along a mile of smooth, level rubble. Our photographer had a most difficult time finding any small spot shielded from the sun which would enable him to change film. The road which parallels the atomic bomb site also parallels the Mitsubishi arms plant, which, bombed most thoroughly, was still a One End of Atomic Valley '

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