alt="Nagasaki atomic bomb" Figure 1.--Many older children escaped the two atomic bombs (and conventional bombs) because they had been evacuated from the major Japanese cities (including Hiroshima and Nagasaki). Many people remaining in the industrial cities were workers in the war factories. As American B-29 Superfort bombing raids intensified in 1945, Japanese authorities expanded the evacuation programs. No data is available on the numbers of children evacuated, his was commonly done through the schools and countless city schools throughout Japan were destroyed as a reslt of the bombing. The children evacuated were school age children. Younger children like the Nagasaki baby here remained at home with their mothers. This photoi was taken near the Michinoo Rilay Sttion (November 10, 1o945). Photographer: Yamahata Yousuke.

The Japanese militarists that launched the war in China (1937) heabily bombed Chinese cities (1937). When launching the Pacific War (1941), the Japanese militarists believed that the vast expanse of the Pacific War made them immune from bombing, just like the Luftwaffe commanders thouht they could bomb oher countries and no ne cold bomb them. It took three years of wr after Pearl Harbor, but when the Mauianas fell (1944), the Japanese Home Islands were in range of the new B-29 Supefortress. It took some time to buld bases and to refine bombing tactics, but effective raids finall began. Many older children escaped the two atomic bombs (and conventional bombs) because they had been evacuated from the major Japanese cities (including Hiroshima and Nagasaki). Large numbers of civilians fled from the cities, nit only because of the bombing, but because food was becoming unvailable in h cities. Many of the people remaining in the industrial cities were workers in the war factories. As American B-29 Superfort bombing raids intensified in 1945, Japanese authorities expanded the evacuation programs. No data is available on the numbers of children evacuated, his was commonly done through the schools and countless city schools throughout Japan were destroyed as a reslt of the bombing. The children evacuated were school age children. Younger children like the Nagasaki baby here remained at home with their mothers.

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