American Soldiers exposed（3/3) "75 Years A-Bomb "Dr.Soko DAY15/50

Mr.Shigeaki Mori wanted to know the truth of American soldiers deaths. So he researched privately throughout his life. There were newspaper and the governmental statements, however, Mr.Mori investigate by himself because he pursued the real truth. 

Military policeman's testimony

Mr.Mori found the Military policemen who took Mr.Hugh H. Atkinson who was 26 year old from Chugoku Military Police Building crashed.His name was Mr.Ohtsuka. （「原爆で死んだ米兵秘史」森重昭　光人社　2008年　p194-196 要約)

Mr. Otsuka was the Sergeant-General of the Chinese Military Police. He was exposed A-bomb at home around 4.5km from the hypocenter. He rushed to go to the headquarters of the Chinese military police, where was only 400m from the hypocenter. The building of the headquarters was collapsed and 19 military police were injured in the vicinity. They were too weak to run there by themselves. 

He found an American soldier was wandering in a puddle. 

Mr. Otsuka testified that the American soldier also brought in to help, but it seemed that he was already quite weak.

Just as dozens of supporters from the Kure Military Police arrived. But the city center streets were in fire. It seemed difficult to get out of city by truck.

So they decided to get out the city by boat from the Aioi bridge . But the boat could not be launched due to the ebb tide.

They had no choice but to stay on the bridge on the night of August 6th. Mr.Otsuka said that the American soldier looked very weak.

When an American soldier was tied to the parapet, Mr.Otsuka made him smoke. He inhaled only once.

The next morning, the American soldier have died.

Mr. Otsuka remembered exactly that the height of this American soldier was 175 cm. Because Mr. Otsuka walked next to this American soldier and took him to Aioi Bridge. It was another military policeman that tied up. But Mr.Otsuka emphasized that he didn't let anyone touch the US soldier around him. 

"I didn't let anyone around me touch him, even a finger."（「原爆で死んだ米兵秘史」森重昭　光人社　2008年　p196 )

Other American soldiers under Mushroom Cloud

At the headquarters of the Chinese military police, at least four American soldiers died. In addition, one has been witnessed dead around Hiroshima Castle. The other two have been confirmed to have died at a later date due to radiation exposure.

In addition, one of the five, my aunt Aunt Nobuko, found the body on August 7 near the Hatchobori intersection. Nobody knows the details of how that person died. 

I don't know if he just hit the body after he died or if he was hit while he was alive.  I just, I am very sorry for him. 

So, I state strongly to the world, "No more war, No more Nuke!"

Either way, Aunt Nobko never, ever forgot about this American soldier for 75 years. His image has been in her heart for 75 years, and she still think him in her heart, "I wanted to help. I'm sorry, I am's so sorry." 

So she told me, "PLEASE DO NOT FORGET THE AMERICAN SOLDIER I SAW IN HIROSHIMA, WHO I COULD NOT HELP."

Same Humans We Are

The Chinese military police headquarters, where the American prisoners were, was just 400 meters from the hypocenter. I think that they, who received the radiation, the blast, and the heat rays in the immediate vicinity, were definitely injured and weakened in a sick condition.

To imagine how sad the Americans who were under the mushroom clouds of  the atomic bomb were, I feel heartbreaking.

It's a pity that the wandering people in the enemy nation could not be helped.

Perhaps Mori-san, who spent all his life investigating American soldiers, had the same feelings and desperately spent decades investigating them. Mr. Mori found Mr. Otsuka, a military police officer who walked with one of the American soldiers to Aioibashi, and heard precisely what happened on Aioibashi. 

Never Make a Single Victim of Nuke in the Future

Of course, nobody knows about the other US soldiers situations. People threw stones at the corpses in devastated situations. Some may throw stones while they were alive. Nobody can deny. But the most important thing that we should do is not to forget the US soldiers under Mushroom cloud, not to forget who died under the Mushroom cloud, and never make a single victim of Nuke in the future. 

There were Japanese Hibakusha who draw the US soldier on Aioi bridge. They kept him in their memory, as Nobuko did. We, as people of their grand children era, should not forget him.

We have to keep in mind that war should never happen.