Atomic Bomb Victims on Ninoshima. Diary of a Young Surgeon

On Aug. 6, 1945, a young Army surgeon witnessed the huge column of flame rising at 8:15 a.m. above Mount Akikofuji on Ninoshima Island in the Seto Inland Sea, near Hiroshima. Soon after, the island, which held a quarantine hospital, was inundated with victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.The surgeon, who treated survivors at a medical unit over the next few weeks, depicts what he saw in a...