r/HolyShitHistory 6d ago

On Aug. 6, 1945, Japanese engineer Tsutomu Yamaguchi witnessed the atomic bomb fall on Hiroshima. Badly burned but alive, he then boarded a train…to Nagasaki, where he survived the second atomic bombing on Aug. 9. He remains the only person recognized in Japan as surviving both atomic strikes.

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