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The Journal of Humanitarian Studies Vol. 2, 2013fragments which had stuck into bodies and treating bone fractures. Zinc oil and rivanol gauze on burnt sites became dryquickly as crisps. Therefore, we treated it with saline, which was actually in a syringe. We suffered from a shortage of nursesand medicine. (The Military Nurse and the Medical Ship -Hiroshima-) (17)Moreover, the Ono Army Hospital was completely destroyed by a mudslide caused by Makurazaki Typhoon on17 September 1945. As a result, a large number of medical staff and patients including atomic bomb survivors losttheir lives. A chief nurse and a number of nurses also died in the line of duty, and two nurses of the JRCS ShimaneChapter Emergency Relief Party lost their lives in the mudslide. Hiroshima Chapter Party No.70 attached to theKure Naval Hospital in Hiroshima Prefecture carried out the relief activities for victims of the Kure City Bombingon 2 July 1945. Due to the air raid, their dormitory was burnt down and they lost their all living goods. When theatomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, they were in Kure City. They heard an extremely heavy soundand saw that the windows of the hospital trembled violently. Soon after that, they witnessed black and red fire ballswent up to the sky likewise twisted together very far away.After a while, we were informed that a new type weapon was dropped on Hiroshima City; as a consequence, we wereordered to go to Hiroshima. Therefore, we organised a relief party. Army surgeons, combat medics and nurses immediatelyloaded a number of sanitation equipment and medicine onto a relief truck and headed for Hiroshima. Under great fire, wewere at last able to reach an east parade ground and set up a relief station over there. An enormous number of horrificallyburnt atomic bomb victims came and gathered on the ground; likewise, there was almost no space to walk in. We werehardly able to care for them and carried them into a barrack, while we sent some victims to the shelter of the Kure NavalHospital. (The Kure Naval Hospital during the Greater East Asia War)In the evening on the day of the atomic bombing, Yamaguchi Chapter of the JRCS was ordered to send emergencyrelief parties by a Governor of Yamaguchi Prefecture. Three emergency parties were immediately formed, whichconsisted of nurses and nursing students of the Iwakuni Naval Red Cross Hospital, and were sent to the HiroshimaRed Cross Hospital and the east parade ground in Hiroshima City. They started to carry out their relief activitiesfrom the next morning. In addition, four emergency relief parties were dispatched to the Hiroshima Second ArmyHospital, the Mukaihara Branch Hospital and the Miyoshi Branch Hospital as the second deployment. (18)Particularly, the Iwakuni Naval Hospital continuously received an enormous number of victims. Many of themdied and nurses cremated a large number of dead bodies.The JRCS Aichi Chapter Relief Party No. 794 was dispatched to the Kure Naval Hospital. Because of the airstrikeon Kure City, the party moved to the Miyoshi Branch Hospital of the Iwakuni Naval Red Cross Hospital. On theday of the Hiroshima Atomic Bombing, they heard“an ominously horrific sound”. As a result, they immediatelytook an urgent measure to send a relief party to Bingo Tokaichi Station to receive and provide first aid to severelyinjured people who were transferred from Hiroshima City by trains.Almost all victims we received had terrible burns and had dreadful lacerations from broken glass. It was an absolutely shockingscene. [...] Victims were cruelly naked. I just could not look at them. [...] Due to a shortage of naval surgeons and nurses, we couldnot have enough treatment for them. We were only able to provide a little first aid treatment such as putting Mercurochrome andrivanol gauze on their injuries. I felt truly sorry for them. (Memory of Pika-Don 3 and the End of the War) (19)3 Pika-Don is an onomatopoeic word in Japanese, which means the atomic bomb detonation.‘Pika’depicts a brilliant light instantlyfollowed by a thunderous blast,‘Don’.人道研究ジャーナルVol. 2, 201375