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Description
Mr. Billson describes viewing the devastation after the bombing of Nagasaki. The only intact things he sees are few porcelain toilets. He also describes how the blast had rolled all the sod up the surrounding hills.
Transcription
I went back to Nagasaki and the buildings and that had steel frames, they were just all twisted and burnt brown with the heat but I will always remember it and so did most of the other fellows. They had their toilets outside; they had a couple there that were quite modern toilets, the water flush and they were set on a cement slab, the building was gone completely and the toilet was standing there not a crack in it. Apparently porcelain is resistant to the pressures of an atomic bomb. But the hillsides where they had gone up the hill it had just taken the sods right off the hill and rolled them back up the hill.