All 9 Uses of
Hiroshima
in
Unbroken, by Hillenbrand
- Among the cities listed on the leaflets were Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
p. 297.2Hiroshima = port city in Japan that was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb dropped on a populated area
- Tibbets spoke over the interphone: "It's Hiroshima."
p. 299.6
- At POW Camp 10-D, on the far side of the mountains by Hiroshima, prisoner Ferron Cummins felt a concussion roll down from the hills, and the air warmed strangely.
p. 300.8 *Hiroshima = Japanese port city that was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb dropped on a populated area
- Below it, Hiroshima was boiling.
p. 300.9Hiroshima = port city in Japan that was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb dropped on a populated area
- A guard said something to Louie that stuck in his head: Hiroshima had been hit by cholera.
p. 301.2
- On August 9, Nagasaki, like Hiroshima, disappeared.
p. 301.9
- The men fell silent, piecing together the rumors of one giant bomb vaporizing Hiroshima and the abrupt end to the war.
p. 308.3
- A few of the trains slipped past Hiroshima.
p. 320.1
- John Falconer, a survivor of the Bataan Death March, looked out as Hiroshima neared.
p. 320.2
Definition:
port city in Japan; on August 6, 1945 it was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb dropped on a populated area