Word: niimoto
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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...Manhattan's Mt. Sinai Hospital last week, plastic surgeons removed the dressings from the face of a 23-year-old Japanese girl named Shigeko Niimoto and noted with satisfaction that her extensive skin graft had been an almost perfect take. The contours of the girl's face were almost normal again...
...Blinding Flash. Shigeko was the youngest and prettiest of Oyster-Fisherman Masayuki Niimoto's three daughters. The two elder sisters and their brother were away from Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. Shigeko was on her way to the Hiroshima Girls' Commercial High School, where she had just entered the freshman class. As she crossed the Tsurumi Bridge, someone called "Look!" It was a few seconds before 8:15 a.m. Shigeko turned. Then: "A blinding flash, and I fell to the ground. I covered my eyes with my hands. As I struggled to get to my feet, something...
Despite agonizing burns about her head, neck, chest and arms, Shigeko made her way to an aid station. There, three days later, her mother found her. With doctors all but wiped out-and the few survivors helpless against disorders they could not diagnose-Mrs. Niimoto took charge. When she tried to remove the tatters of Shigeko's clothing, the burned skin and flesh came off, too. Morning and evening for a month, Mrs. Niimoto anointed her daughter's seared flesh with cooking oil and carefully washed her eyes with bicarbonate of soda. When the ash-grey tissue peeled...
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