Photos of searchers seeking victims of a Hiroshima bombing 80 years later on a nearby island

When the first atomic bomb detonated 80 years ago on Aug. 6, thousands of the dead and dying were brought to the small, rural island of Ninoshima, just south of Hiroshima, by military boats with crews that had trained for suicide attack missions.

By Associated Press

August 4, 2025

AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko

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