Navy photographer pictures suffering and ruins that resulted from atom bomb blast in Hiroshima, Japan. Victim lies in make-shift hospital in bank building.

Navy photographer pictures suffering and ruins that resulted from atom bomb blast in Hiroshima, Japan. Blast victims live in fly-infested hospital in bank building.

Navy photographer pictures suffering and ruins that resulted from atom bomb blast in Hiroshima, Japan. Japanese soldier walks through leveled area.

Aircrewman, wounded during raid on Rabaul, on board the USS Saratoga (CV-3). Alva Parker (ARM1) who suffered shrapnel wounds in neck and shoulders, rests in litter.

Pressure bandaged after they suffered burns when their ship was hit by a kamikaze attack, men are fed aboard the USS Solace (AH-5).

Seriously wounded soldier of the 116th Engineers, prior to his operation at the 121st Evacuation Hospital, in Yongdong-pu.

"The patient's skin is burned in a pattern corresponding to the dark portions of a kimono worn at the time of the explosion.", ca. 1945

Cpl. Leopold Anthony Mulikowski, WSMC, of Muskegon, Mich., rests on board the USS Benevolence, AH-13, after rescue from prison camp where he spent three years.

Pvt. J.B. Slagle, USA, receives his daily dressing of wounds on board USS Solace (AH-5) enroute from Okinawa to Guam.