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January 08, 2010

Luckiest or Unluckiest Guy Ever?

Mr. Tsutomu Yamaguchi dies at 93.

Yamaguchi, then an engineer . . . was in Hiroshima on a business trip on 6 August 1945 when an American B-29 bomber. . . dropped an atomic bomb on the city, killing 80,000 people instantly. . . The badly burned Yamaguchi . . . spent the night in an air raid shelter before returning home to Nagasaki, 180 miles away, two days later. He was in Nagasaki on 9 August when a nuclear bomb devastated [that] city, killing an estimated 70,000 people.

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Posted by Matthew Hogan at 10:09 PM | Comments (0)
Filed Under: Irony Watch , Random Personal , World War 2