The PoWs who survived Nagasaki
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How Did You Survive the Nagasaki Bomb?
A lot of prisoners who survived the Nagasaki bomb didn't say much to their family or only said it really late in life. Ron Breyer, for example, worked in the shipyards as a rivet. He had no training and just picked it up in a couple of days. Others worked in foundries making weapons. Basically, it was their job to support the Japanese military effort. Although, if they could, they would find little acts of sabotage just to slow things down. It made them feel that they were fighting the war. They would drop rivets into the water or not put the rivets in properly. That sort of thing,. even if it didn't really work,
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