People Are Sharing The Most Bizarre Historical Events They Can’t Believe Actually Took Place
“In Hiroshima, he dove into a ditch in the handful of seconds it took for the blast to reach him, which is probably what saved his life. The blast actually pulled him out of the ditch and tossed into into a nearby potato patch. He came to later, the sky darkened by the debris kicked up by the blast, covered in second- and third-degree burns; both his eardrums were ruptured.
He got up and managed to find his way to the Mitsubishi shipyard, where he found a couple of colleagues who had also survived, and together they spent the night in the bomb shelter. The next day, they found that miraculously, a train still worked, so the survivors loaded in and were taken out of the still-burning ruins of Hiroshima by train overnight to Nagasaki.
At work, he was immediately taken in to see the Director of Mitsubishi to tell him what happened. The Director straight up didn’t believe Yamaguchi, thinking he’d gone mad from his experience. That’s when Yamaguchi saw the flash of light, exactly like the one in Hiroshima. He hit the ground just in time to dodge the worst of the glass exploding in a wave of sharp death from the shockwave.
Despite everything, Yamaguchi would live to the ripe old age of 93 and have nine children.”
—u/LilyWineAuntofDemons
