Friday, March 27, 2009

How lucky (or unlucky) can you get?

Mari Yamaguchi, "Japanese Man Certified as Double A-Bomb Victim" (Yahoo News, March 24, 2009):
TOKYO – A 93-year-old Japanese man has become the first person certified as a survivor of both U.S. atomic bombings at the end of World War II, officials said Tuesday....

Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on a business trip on Aug. 6, 1945, when a U.S. B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on the city. He suffered serious burns to his upper body and spent the night in the city. He then returned to his hometown of Nagasaki just in time for the second attack, city officials said.
[Hat tip to J.S.]

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