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....... J A P A N 1969 ............................
The Tokyo Towers
spans to
1,093 feet at it's base, thereby being the largest steel framed structure in the world
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![]() Japanese
Costume
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VIEW
- August 6, 1945 DROPPING
OF THE A BOMB
Leaflets were dropped first -
see: Propaganda
or Bombings
A Kawishiwi
crew member knows a Japanese woman who married a GI.
She was a teenager working in a torpedo factory in Nagasaki.
She said the U.S. leaflets were dropped ahead of time.
She and her family left town right before the second atomic bomb was
dropped.

The "Atomic
Dome", in Hiroshima. One of the few buildings which survived the
blast of 1945
Museum
photos by U. S. Airforce Veteran - a friend of Vern's
He and his family stayed at Navy base in Sasebo.
He was there about same time as Kawishiwi was in 1969.


![]() The Daibutsu, or "Great Buddha", of Kamakura |
![]() A Tokyo woman washes and separates the rice |
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