Tsutomu yamaguchi biography of mahatma

On 6 January 2010, Mr Tsutomu Yamaguchi died, aged 93..

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Dive into the remarkable tale of Tsutomu Yamaguchi, a survivor of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings.

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On 6 January 2010, Mr Tsutomu Yamaguchi died, aged 93.

On the 30th of January, our school celebrates the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's death.

Tsutomu Yamaguchi, 93, was on a business trip in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945.

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– From And the River Flowed as the Raft of Corpses, a book by Chad Diehl featuring Tsutomu Yamaguchi’s poetry

Mushroom cloud over Nagasaki

At around am on the morning of August 6, , Tsutomu Yamaguchi was heading to his place of work when he looked up and noticed a B bomber soaring over Hiroshima.

A small object attached to two parachutes dropped out of the plane and the next thing Yamaguchi remembered was a flash of light like a magnesium flare hurtling towards the city.

The kiloton uranium atomic bomb, known as Little Boy, destroyed much of Hiroshima.

Just three kilometers from the epicenter of the blast, Yamaguchi was violently pushed back before instinctively taking cover in an irrigation ditch. A nautical engineer, he’d been sent to Hiroshima three months earlier by his boss at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to work on an oil tanker.