Otake District Volunteer Citizen Corps
Otake City is a leading coastal industrial area along the Seto Inland Sea, located in the western end of Hiroshima Prefecture.
On August 6, 1945, a dispatch mission for building demolition in Hiroshima City was assigned to Volunteer Citizen Corps of Kuba-cho, Ogata-mura and Otake-cho.
Among approximately 1,000 members who had been mobilized from Otake District, almost all the approximately 100 members of Kuba Corps and approximately 80 members of Ogata Corps were annihilated. Approximately 100 members of the Otake Corps also died.
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Mobilization Status and Damage to Otake District Volunteer Citizen Corps
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From the “History of Otake City” issued by Otake City Government on March 31, 1970
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List of Kuba-cho Volunteer Citizen Corps, Second Company’s Members
Collection of Otake City
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Shirt beaten by black rain
In the morning on August 6, Tokuso Wakamoto (then, 28) was dispatched in the backup party of the Otake-cho Volunteer Citizen Corps. On the way to his building demolition worksite, he was exposed to the bomb on a road in Fukushima-cho and passed out. When he came to, he found that he had sustained burn injuries on his face and hands and realized that most of the other corps members were not around him. He was caught in the black rain in the vicinity of Takasu, on his way to escape from the disaster site. The sticky black rain left speckles on his shirt.
Donated by Tokuso Wakamoto