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Watch Tower Atop a Burned Out Fire Station in Nagasaki, Japan

2018-116
Accession Number
2018-116
4x5 inches (10x13 cm)
Black & White
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NAID 348728981
Keywords
Fire stations
War damage
Nagasaki-shi (Japan) bombardment, 1945
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Description
This is a watch tower atop a burned out fire station in Nagasaki, Japan. A watcher would scale to the top and look for fires. When he saw one, he sounded an alarm. From Basil Rice.
Date(s)
October 1945