The Snapshots in Time Collection
Verso of U.S. Army Press Photograph: Caption Identifying Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Survivor Akira Yamaguchi, 14 March 1947
This is the reverse side of an official U.S. Army photograph, bearing a typed caption identifying its subject as Akira Yamaguchi, a survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing who sustained severe facial and forearm burn scars. Dated 14 March 1947 and credited to photographer Block under Far East Command reference FEC-47-72297, the card exemplifies how the U.S. military documented and catalogued images of atomic bomb survivors for official and public record in the postwar occupation period. Project: 218359