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Bombing of Nagasaki.

Description: "A dense column of smoke rises more than 60,000 feet into the air over the Japanese port of Nagasaki, the result of an atomic bomb, the second ever used in warfare, dropped on the industrial center August 8, 1945, from the US B-29 Superfortress."
Keywords: World War II
Credit: National Archives and Records Administration


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Images of American Political History. Posting online by Dr. William J. Ball. All images are believed to be in the public domain. Please do not contact me for permission to use them.

 

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