Last of Hiroshima Maidens Depart for Japan

Clip: 494109_1_1

Year Shot: 1956 (Actual Year)

Audio: Yes

Video: B/W

Tape Master: 1174

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HD: N/A

Location: San Francisco, California

Timecode: 02:03:47 - 02:04:14

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Last of Hiroshima Maidens Depart for Japan Newsreel regarding the last of the Hiroshima Maidens departing for home after a year and a half of plastic surgery in the United States, which diminished, but could not remove the scars they bore of the atom bomb dropped on their home in 1945... MS's Japanese women walking onto tarmac, boarding plane, waving to crowd of friends and relatives. VO says, "they say that their sacrifice was worth it, if only the atom is never used in war".