Mushroom cloud from atomic bomb over Nagasaki, Japan, 9 August 1945

Gift In Memory "Ham" Hamilton, from the Collection of The National WWII Museum
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Aerial view of the mushroom cloud from the atomic bomb. "This is the smoke column caused by the explosion of the second atomic bomb at Nagasaki. This picture was made at 30,000 ft." See also 2010.216.349. Nagasaki, Japan. 9 August 1945

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Photographs taken during the service of Ladelle A. Hamilton in the USAAF in the PTO in WWII.
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Nagasaki
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32.750
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129.867
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Mushroom clouds--Japan
Aerial photographs--Japan
Atomic bombs--American--Japan