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Lake Redrock Iowa

Guys I need help identifying this

This is an original photo of the atomic bombing of Japan

My great grandpa sent it back home from a friend of his who was on a nearby plane

I'm not sure if it was the Hiroshima bombing or the Nagasaki bombing, although from other pictures it seems like its Nagasaki

This was written on the back

That's Hiroshima

Oh damn i didn't know, and im assuming the writing on the back gives the altitude and town the picture was taken over

Although I've never heard of a Nagorit, cant tell what the letters are

Hmmm

I doubt that's from a plane nearby, because the Enola Gay flew solo

It was a top secret mission, so I would assume

Maybe a fellow pilot from the aribase, and copies of the photo were circulated, idk

I doubt that's the original because there's already offical copies that have been filed

I suggest you read the book "BOMB" it'll give you a better insight

It can't be a copy, it looked like the photo was produced and everything. I have a ton of photos they used and reproduce from the same time period, and its obvious that the others were manufactured

This is the orginal

See same speck mark as your copy?

Also note the Enloa Gay's photograph of the explosion was everywhere after it shocked the world

So there are millioms of copies everywhere

I dont doubt that, I just think it doesn't seem like a reproduction because it looks like it was taken physically with an actual camera and produced

Idk, im not sure how old cameras worked

But i showed it to my grandparents who grew up using that type of equipment and they seemed fairly sure it was real

I'll never know tho lmao

Idk man I'm not a historian so just commenting based on my limmited knowledge from reading about the subject

I suggesr you take it to a real expert

Will be intersting

Yeah

It just feels real ig

It has thay reflective coating that alot of old pictures have on them to protect them after they've been produced

But that photo was in a little green envelope with another, slightly smaller picture of what looked like an air view of some city

All the other photos I have were in some old labeled envelope of a company that sold pictures of war back to the homeland