Word: lensmen
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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Ashore, U.S. photographers crouched side by side with Domei's lensmen, shooting the big shots. One Domei cameraman had carrier pigeons to fly his pictures back to his office. U.S. and Jap reporters elbowed each other at press conferences. Jap reporters obligingly gave out interviews, and in turn interviewed U.S. newsmen. (Didn't they agree that the bombing of Japanese cities was horrible?) The U.P. came up with an eyewitness description of atom-bombed Hiroshima from its onetime Tokyo office manager, Honolulu-born Leslie Nakashima, who went there to look up his mother. Wrote he: "I was dumfounded...