Atomic Bomb

When the atomic bomb dropped we had a little dugout in the camp. We went in there. I don’t know, we weren’t too far from the atomic bomb, maybe 70 miles. It was bad. The worst part of it for me was the 14 days after I went through where the bomb dropped to go to the harbor to try and get on a ship, wait for a ship and there was still craters on the ground, fire, you know. And like railroad tracks, everything was melted. And on the outskirts of the city there were mothers and little children begging for help, you know, mercy. I couldn’t take that. That gave me a nervous breakdown.