GeoLane at PTD dot NET wrote in message
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A few years back I read a book titled "First Into Nagasaki". It was
written by the son of an American reporter who managed to get into
Nagasaki before the US army did. ...

RWL

This is an eyewitness account by a German missionary in Hiroshima.
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/mp25.asp

Compare it to Kurt Vonnegut's account of the bombing of Dresden in
"Slaughterhouse 5", whose empty underground meat storage locker was
his deep, cold and safe air raid shelter. Vonnegut was actually one of
the captured Infantry scouts he mentions in the story.

jsw