354 DASA 2019-2 WARREN: Well, [don't think any came in outside of the tezms that went down there frony Tokyo and Osaka tu study the situation. There Were severab medicat officers who came in with a little Japanese major from fare, iat they didn't do anything but look. In Hiroshima, of wourse, the mayor died and most of the city officials were casualties one was or vnother. So they couldn't act. But in this book that somebody Gaentioned it gives a diary of the time. It's quite accurate in what happened there in trying to set upa city government to make some sense outot there problems. They got c’othing and food and things from: volunteers, but it tvuok six months or longer, I guess, before this cane ie in any organized way. That was only after people began to come baci in, FISENBUD: PT wonder what fraction of the food consumed by the Japanese in the first year was brought in. Was there a significant fraction of it brought in? WARREN: Only until the local crops were harvested. DOBSON: Was there a rodent problem of significance in either of th: atom-bombed cities in Japan? WARREN: There was almost no animal life. We saw one dog in Nagasaki and he was a great big police dog. He wandered around like. a wolf for a couple of days. But there were no bodies around, no rats, no cats yetin Naha. On the other hand, when we went through Okinawa, there were lots of rats and the stench was ,».etty bad even though Naha had been bulldozed flat then, But there were still availacic parts of bodies, I guces, if the rats dig down. I suppose there was a considerable amount of food that h:d been destroyed by the shelling and was available even after the bulldozing. Okinawa had large farms There was a big farming area around there and some of the forests and wild lands, so the animal population was available. But around Nagasaki and Hiroshima, while there was a lot of bamboo, it was pretty heavily cultivated, and I imagine they had hunted down and consumed things like rats. There was little food for pets and there were no game animals. , CONARD: Would you say the medical facilities in Japan had been pretty well exhausted because of the long war? WARREN: Yes, they were short in all medicines. . “