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Scene confronting rescue workers entering air raid shelter sometime after a raid. Victims succumbed to carbon monoxide. The blackening of the bodies is due to the effects of hot dry air after death, not to burns. Condition of man (below) was typical of dead found in streets.

National Fire Protection Association

In Japan for two years with the Intelligence and Public Information offices of the U.S. 5th Air Force, Mr. Caidin toured the devastated Japanese cities, and spent much time in Hiroshima, where the world's first atomic bomb used in the war was dropped.