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Hiroshima survivor recalls working on tram after A-bomb

by Associated Press
| August 4, 2020 7:27 PM

HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Tetsuko Shakuda was a frightened 14-year-old when she resumed her work as a conductor on a tram line in the devastated city of Hiroshima, just three days after the atomic bomb exploded 75 years ago, badly damaging the tracks and most of the trams.

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