1945 U. S. ARMY REPORT ON ATOMIC BOMBING OF JAPAN 25042

It documents the findings of a commission sent to Japan to assess the damage caused by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The film opens with footage of the blast of the world s first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico in July 1945. The film then focuses on the flight of the B29 bomber Enola Gay and its mission over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The narrator mentions the military significance of the city and the fact that the city s residents were warned about an impending attack. The results of the bombing are then explained, with footage and descriptions of how various buildings were affected by the blast at different distances from ground zero. Afterwards, an interview with Father John A. Siemes, a Jesuit priest who was living at the Novitiate of the Society of Jesus in Nagatsuka, is shown giving a first hand account of the bombing. Siemes estimates that the bomb killed 100, 000 people.