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The collection of poignant images 
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immediately following the nuclear blast in Nagasaki, Japan</div>
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<span id="ext-gen182" style="font-size: 1.2em;">Haunting
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with an atomic bomb have emerged 70 years after being confiscated by 
American forces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Yamahata was tasked with documenting the destruction for propaganda purposes and arrived at the scene just 12 hours later.</span></div>
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Haunting 
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Photographer Yosuke Yamahata, pictured in Shanghai in 1943 here, took the iconic snaps</div>
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Supreme Commander
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with General MacArthur, who played a prominent role in the war against 
Japan. The photo, taken in 1946, shows a rare moment of tenderness 
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Supreme Commander Eisenhower carrying out inspection in the historic snaps, which have not seen the light of day for 70 years</div>
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Yamahata was tasked with documenting the destruction for propaganda purposes and arrived at the scene just 12 hours later </div>
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His haunting photographs encapsulated the devastation left behind by the atomic bomb</div>
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They were requisitioned following a 
direct order from General Douglas MacArthur to seize and destroy any 
such pictures to shield the true scale of the carnage from the public 
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The full album contains 24 photographs developed from Yamahata's original negatives</div>
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Some of his 
photographs, which became iconic after featuring in a 1952 edition of 
Life Magazine, are considered the most complete record of the attack's 
aftermath. However some were confiscated by an unidentified US military 
policeman in the months that followed, never to be seen again until now</div>
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 of his photographs, which became iconic after featuring in a 1952 
edition of Life Magazine, are considered the most complete record of the
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 some were confiscated by an unidentified US military policeman in the 
months that followed, never to be seen again until now.</span></div>
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 were requisitioned following a direct order from General Douglas 
MacArthur to seize and destroy any such pictures to shield the true 
scale of the carnage from the public back at home.</span></div>
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 the military policeman kept hold of the images, which have since been 
acquired by a collector, and are now being sold in the US by RR Auction 
with an estimate of £38,000.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The full album contains 24 photographs developed from Yamahata's original negatives.</span></div>
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 of these 12 were never published because, unbeknownst to Yamahata at 
the time, they were taken using a defective shutter that created small 
black dots on the finished product and thus made them surplus to 
Yamahata's requirements.</span></div>
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 lot also contains more than 200 photographs captured by the military 
policeman, including candid snaps of General MacArthur and President 
Dwight Eisenhower greeting troops and a personal account from Yamahata 
about the horrors he witnessed.</span></div>
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An eerie picture of two Nagasaki survivors </div>
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 this article, published by a Japanese magazine in 1962, he says: 'I 
tried climbing up onto a small hill to look - all around, the city 
burned with what looked like little elf-fires, and the sky was blue and 
full of stars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'It was a strangely beautiful scene.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'On my way, I began to hear the voices of dying people calling out, 'Water, give me water, please'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'I stumbled over things in my path, such as the belly of a horse that had been charred to death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'At
 2am in the morning it was pitch dark so I couldn't see anything. But 
after sunrise I saw that the skin had been exposed was a reddish 
brownish colour.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'The victims faces were horribly inflamed. They brought to mind 'watermelon ghosts'. Even their eyes were burned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'The
 blacks of the eyelids were red and swollen as though they had been 
turned inside out, and the edges of the eyes were yellow like the fat of
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Blinded people groped their way forward with both hands extended in front of them.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Many of Yamahata's photographs were used in Japanese publications just a few weeks after the bombing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He died aged 48 in 1966 of cancer, which is believed to have been caused by extensive exposure to radiation.</span></div>
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Many of Yamahata's photographs were used in Japanese publications </div>
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He died aged 48 in 1966 of cancer, which is believed to have been caused by extensive exposure to radiation</div>
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Many of Yamahata's photographs were used in Japanese publications just </div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Robert
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 this album in your hands you get a feel for how powerful these images 
are.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'These are the originals, not retouched, not fixed and have rarely been seen in public before.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'They
 show us just how much of a devastating weapon this was, and what the 
atomic bomb bomb did to the human body is pretty gruesome and disturbing
 to see.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The US's nuclear strike against Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, came three days after a similar bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">These attacks resulted in the deaths of around 120,000 people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Japan surrendered six days later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The lot is being sold on September 25. </span><i>dailymail</i></div>
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<b>US atomic bomb strike against Japan on August, 1945</b>
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The hidden horrors of Nagasaki: Confiscated photographs of the devastating effects of America's atomic bomb

The collection of poignant images taken by Yosuke Yamahata, a Japanese military photographer, show the flattened land...

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