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J A P A N
1969

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As seen by the crew members
of the USS Kawishiwi AO-146
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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

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.



More Kawishiwi Crew Photos.

The Daibutsu, or "Great Buddha", of Kamakura 

A Tokyo woman washes and separates the rice

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