Hiroshima

[joea]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Has anyone ever though about the civilian losses that Japan suffered due to the A-bombs AFTER the war? AFAIK, it was still killing in the 80-90's.

Well yes. However, do you think only the victims of the a-bombs were affected after the war? I know one fellow whose father was in the Filipino resistance and suffered health problems the rest of his life from being a forced labourer as a POW. Doubtless anyone a victim of Unit 731 or medical experiments at Auschwitz who survived had a lower life expectancy ... as did German soldiers who say survived the POW camps in Siberia. I don't doubt many civilians who were burned by conventional bombs or suffered malnutrition died later on or lived shorter lives. Another friend whose grandfather was an aircrewman on a Ju-52 (not sure what though they did transport fuel to North Africa , and would fly out over the Baltic with a gear to blow up Allied magnetic mines) suffered from what we call now "post-trumatic stress disorder" and would only recall the war when he drank a bit occasionally, apparently would tremble as well.