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1977.12.6
17 U.S. POWs included on A-bomb list
TOKYO(UPI)- At least 17 American prisoners of war were killed in atomic bombing of Hiroshima in the last days of World War Ⅱ, according to a newly discovered Japanese document.
The list of Americans who died in history’s first atmic bombing Aug. 5,1945,(Aug.6 in Japan) was found by a scholar in a batch of Foreign　ministry records declassified last year.
The list was released yesterday,two days before the 35th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that brought the United States into the war.
Sixteen of the men were from the U.S. Navy and the Army Air Corps,the forerunner of the U.S. Air Force. A 17th man was identified only as a U.S.Navy lieutenant whose name was not known to his captors.
The men were crewmen of five different American planes shot down over western and southern Japan in the closing days of the war.
There have been several reports in recent years from survivors of the Hiroshima bombing that Americans and other Allied prisoners were killed when the 20-kiloton bomb called “Little Boy” exploded over the city. The U.S.Defense Department has always declined comment.
The list was found last summer by Satoru Ubuki,31,an employee of Hiroshima University’s Rsearch Institite for Nuclear Medicine and Biology.
The document says the remains of all 17 were turned over to U.S.military authorities in December 1945 after the United States began its seven-year occupation of Japan.
In each case the place of death is listed as “Hiroshima City”and the cause of death was “atomic bomb.”
All but three of the men are listed as having been killed　the day the bomb fell.Another died Aug.8,and two more lingered until Aug.19.
Hiroshima officials have contended for several years that around 50 american,British and Dutch prisoners of war were　killed in the atomic explosion.
A U.S.military survey shortly after the war fixed the Hiroshima death toll at 78,150. But in August of this year, the U.N.Non-Governmental Organization estimated the loss of life at 140,000.
The following names appear on the newly discovered list. In　some cases,ranks,ages or serial numbers are unknown.
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