8. The Japanese Man Who Managed to Escape the Frying Pan by Heading Into the Fire
On the morning of August 6th, 1945, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries employee Tsutomu Yamaguchi was going about his work while on an out-of-town business trip. Unfortunately, that trip had taken him to Hiroshima, so he was there when an American B-29 dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on that city.
The blast blinded him temporarily, ruptured his eardrums, and inflicted serious burns on his upper body. Nonetheless, although he had suffered some burns, Yamaguchi managed to escape with his life and survived. After spending the night in an air-raid shelter, he left the devastated Hiroshima the following day and returned home. Unfortunately, home for Tsutomu Yamaguchi happened to be Nagasaki.