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G Deanj was a Royal Navy telegraphist
with the British Pacific Fleet which
sailed into Tokyo harbour with the US
Navy to take the Japanese surrender.
He had heard of the atomic bombings of
Japan with "quiet apprehension".
"The full horror of the Nagasaki bomb
was to be revealed some seven months
later when I visited Nagasaki," he says
"Sometimes when I look at the
photograph of myself and four
colleagues standing among the rubble I
think to myself should it have been?
"I have my opinions, others have theirs
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