Taken from elevated ground in Hiroshima in the months after the atomic bombing of 6 August 1945, this photograph shows the near-total flattening of the city, with only scattered steel skeletons remaining amid a sea of rubble. Preserved in a personal album, likely compiled by an American serviceman during the occupation of Japan, it stands as private testimony to the unprecedented scale of destruction that helped end the Second World War. Project: 218164