THE A-BOMB MUSEUM, hhIROSHIMA MEMORIAL PEACE PARK This facility, run by Director Kazuharu Mamasaki contains photographs, scale-model reproductions and artifacts relating to the air burst which destroyed Hiroshima. It is as though that instant of destruction still exists today; for as a visitor enters the museum he is thrust backward in time to 8:15 on the morning of August 6, 1945: aead clocks record the time; pictures show charred, scarred and blistered bodies mutely frazen forever in obscene poses of death; there are bottles and coins which were melted like wax figures under a too hot sun; one photo shows a man's outline burned into a ghostly silhouette on a building, a glass case holds the charred remains of a schoolboy's uniform, and a painting depicts the dirty, grey, mushroom cloud hanging over the city. THE RED CROSS A-BOMB HOSPITAL The Committee was introduced to Dr. Dr. Fumio Shigeto, Director. Shigeto is one of the A-bomb survivors and has worked in Hiroshima since the bomb and with the hospital since it was built in 1956. Funding for the Hospital came from the sale of Easter Seal-type stamps. care. It has a 160-bed capacity and the patients receive free medical Operational costs are divided equally by the central, prefectural and municipal governments. Ihe youngest patient is 38, but persons as young as 27 or 28 can be admitted (in utero exposure). 101 4bb3