dinsdag, oktober 25, 2005
Foto's van verwoest Nagasaki teruggevonden
Fifteen photographs of the devastation created by the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945, have been found at the home of Texas photographer Mark Rankin.
Rankin said the photos were taken by his late father Glenn, who visited Nagasaki a month after the attack as a U.S. Marine and called part of the ravaged port city "the valley of death."
The elder Rankin, who was 20 at the time, described a devastated area in northern Nagasaki in a photo caption that read: "Blast rolled up valleys like a great flood."
A caption for a photo of Nakamachi Catholic Church, standing alone in a burned-out area of what used to be downtown Nagasaki, reads: "God is mighty. Let there be peace in the land!"
The 15 pictures are some of the 100 photos Glenn took during a trip from Hawaii to Nagasaki. The remaining 85 include landscapes and shots of people's daily lives in Nagasaki and Sasebo.
Lees meer in The Japan Times.
Rankin said the photos were taken by his late father Glenn, who visited Nagasaki a month after the attack as a U.S. Marine and called part of the ravaged port city "the valley of death."
The elder Rankin, who was 20 at the time, described a devastated area in northern Nagasaki in a photo caption that read: "Blast rolled up valleys like a great flood."
A caption for a photo of Nakamachi Catholic Church, standing alone in a burned-out area of what used to be downtown Nagasaki, reads: "God is mighty. Let there be peace in the land!"
The 15 pictures are some of the 100 photos Glenn took during a trip from Hawaii to Nagasaki. The remaining 85 include landscapes and shots of people's daily lives in Nagasaki and Sasebo.
Lees meer in The Japan Times.
# posted by Jan-Edward : 11:11
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