Shigemoto was fifteen years old when a United States B-29 bomber, named the Enola Gay, dropped an atomic bomb, code-named “Little Boy,” over his city of Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. Little Boy ...

As the smallest child in her family with five kids, Tsuru was 4 when the atomic bomb detonated over the city. Her father was crushed to death under a building that was destroyed by the blast.