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ARC Identifier:     535795

Local Identifier: War and Conflict Number 1242 Title: Atomic Cloud Rises Over Nagasaki, Japan , 08/09/1945

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Creator: Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Overseas Operations Branch. New York Office. News and Features Bureau. (12/17/1942 - 09/15/1945) ( Most Recent) Type of Archival Materials: Photographs and other Graphic Materials Level of Description: Item from Record Group 208: Records of the Office of War Information, 1926 - 1951 Location: Still Picture Records LICON, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001 PHONE: 301-837-3530, FAX: 301-837-3621, EMAIL: stillpix@nara.gov Coverage Dates: 08/09/1945 Date Note: The Office of War Information acquired this photograph from the Army Air Forces. The Army Air Forces caption indicates August 9, 1945, as the date of the event. Part of: Series: Photographs of Allied and Axis Personalities and Activities, 1942 - 1945 Scope & Content Note: Original caption: A dense column of smoke rises more than 60,000 feet into the air over the Japanese port of Nagasaki, the result of an atomic bomb, the second ever used in warfare, dropped on the industrial center August 8, 1945, from a U.S. B-29 Superfortress. Access Restrictions: Unrestricted Use Restrictions: Unrestricted Variant Control Number(s): Former Local Identifier: 208-N-43888

NAIL Control Number: NWDNS-208-N-43888

Copy 1 Copy Status: Preservation Storage Facility: National Archives at College Park - Archives II (College Park, MD)

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