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[edit]Japanese man who survived both American nuclear bombs during WWII?
[edit]Someone was talking about him on Twitter a few weeks ago. He was apparently working in Hiroshima when the Bomb went off. He survived, and decided that he'd had enough and that he was going to go home. So he walked home. To Nagasaki. And arrived just in time for the second Bomb to go off. And he survived that one too.
What was the guy's name? I suppose he was all like "I don't think I can take much more of this" afterwards... --146.200.128.101 (talk) 23:34, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
- That would be Tsutomu Yamaguchi. DuncanHill (talk) 23:39, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
- Here is more info for ya Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki#Double_survivors. MarnetteD|Talk 23:41, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you. Hard to decide whether he was the luckiest man in Japan or the unluckiest, to be quite honest. Did you ever see that aerial footage of the yanks bombing a bridge in Iraq and there was someone driving a truck on it when he either heard the plane or actually saw the bombs falling and put pedal to the metal? I distinctly remember seeing that a few years ago. The driver got over to the other side just as the bridge exploded. Yikes. --146.200.128.101 (talk) 00:00, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
- By the way, for a similarly lucky/unlucky person in another field, see Violet Jessop. --184.144.97.125 (talk) 04:10, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
- And, Unsinkable Sam (although possibly apocryphal). --2603:6081:1C00:1187:E1C8:EB4B:B72C:861C (talk) 19:38, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you. Hard to decide whether he was the luckiest man in Japan or the unluckiest, to be quite honest. Did you ever see that aerial footage of the yanks bombing a bridge in Iraq and there was someone driving a truck on it when he either heard the plane or actually saw the bombs falling and put pedal to the metal? I distinctly remember seeing that a few years ago. The driver got over to the other side just as the bridge exploded. Yikes. --146.200.128.101 (talk) 00:00, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
- I remember this being mentioned on QI. You can see it here. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 16:59, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
- Yes, the unfortunate aftermath of that is described at Tsutomu Yamaguchi#BBC controversy. Alansplodge (talk) 10:54, 25 April 2022 (UTC)