https://padlet.com/Fabio_05/e7dovf5of4gz Fabio Duina 3^F en-us 2019-05-15 15:37:33 UTC 2026-01-20 20:46:08 UTC hello@padlet.com https://imgglb.padletcdn.com/v13/image?t=g_auto&url=https%3A%2F%2Fpadlet.net%2Ficons%2Fpng%2F1f3ef.png Fabio_05 https://padlet.com/Fabio_05/e7dovf5of4gz/wish/360414432 On Monday, August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m., the nuclear weapon "Little Boy" was dropped on Hiroshima from an American Boeing B-29 Superfortress, the Enola Gay, flown by Colonel Paul Tibbets,directly killing an estimated 70,000 people. By the end of the year, injury and radiation brought the total number of deaths to 90,000–166,000.The population before the bombing was around 340,000 to 350,000. About 70% of the city's buildings were destroyed, and another 7% severely damaged. ]]> 2019-05-15 15:59:59 UTC https://padlet.com/Fabio_05/e7dovf5of4gz/wish/360414432 Fabio_05 https://padlet.com/Fabio_05/e7dovf5of4gz/wish/360837417 Now I'm going to talk about Ms. Akiko Takakura'interview.
She was 20 when the bomb fell. She was in the Bank of Hiroshima, 300 meters away from the Hypocenter.
Ms. Takakura miraculously escaped death despite over 100 lacerated wounds on her back. She now runs a kindergarten and she relates her experience of the atomic bombing to children.]]> 2019-05-16 15:17:48 UTC https://padlet.com/Fabio_05/e7dovf5of4gz/wish/360837417 Fabio_05 https://padlet.com/Fabio_05/e7dovf5of4gz/wish/360840414 In the first part of the interview Ms. Takakura talks about what she did in the morning of the 6th of August in 1945. She walked from Hatchobori to the Bank of Hiroshima. She arrived at around 8:15 and she signed her name in the attendance book; after few seconds, the A-bomb was dropped. She remembers that she saw something flashing suddenly.]]> 2019-05-16 15:22:53 UTC https://padlet.com/Fabio_05/e7dovf5of4gz/wish/360840414 Fabio_05 https://padlet.com/Fabio_05/e7dovf5of4gz/wish/360843418 In the second part of the interview Ms. Takakura elaborates on the flash.
She lost consciousness right after she saw the flash. When she regained consciousness, she found herself in the dark.
After few minutes she realized that they were been attacked so she told her friend Ms. Asami, to run out of the building.
Ms. Asami however, told her to leave her and try to escape by herself because she thought that she couldn't move.
While they were talking, the sky started to grow lighter.
They finally went out of the building but, since Hiroshima was enveloped in flames, they felt terribly hot and could not breath well at all.
After a while, a whirpool of fire approached Ms. Takakura; that whirpool burned her leg and her ear, but she noticed it later. ]]> 2019-05-16 15:28:07 UTC https://padlet.com/Fabio_05/e7dovf5of4gz/wish/360843418 Fabio_05 https://padlet.com/Fabio_05/e7dovf5of4gz/wish/360855024 In the third part she describes the situation of Hiroshima.
The whirpool of fire was covering the entire street. Everyone tried so hard to keep away from fire. It began to rain, so people opened their mouths and turned their faces towards the sky.]]> 2019-05-16 15:49:31 UTC https://padlet.com/Fabio_05/e7dovf5of4gz/wish/360855024 Fabio_05 https://padlet.com/Fabio_05/e7dovf5of4gz/wish/360859042 In the final part of this interview Ms. Takakura says that Hiroshima was entirely covered with only three colours: black, red and brown, nothing else. Many people on the street were killed almost instantly. The fingertips of those dead bodies caught fire and the fire gradually spread over their entire bodies. A light gray liquid dripped down their hand, scorching their fingers. Ms. Takakura was so shocked to know that fingers and bodies could be burned and deformed like that. ]]> 2019-05-16 15:56:53 UTC https://padlet.com/Fabio_05/e7dovf5of4gz/wish/360859042