Size: 14.5 x 10.5 inches

This very rare early red (blood) ribbon binding pictorial booklet was published under the supervision of the 2nd Marines Division Special Services Section, 1946. The book consists of 39 unnumbered leaves printed on one side only.  Each leave has one to five photos include the possible D-Day landings, demilitarization and repatriation of the Japanese forces, Nagasaki and the atomic bomb, and military and civilian life.

This book was issued and given to the unit first in Nagasaki after the bomb. As stated in book, “This pictorial booklet of the 2nd Marine Division, commanded by Major General LeRoy P. Hunt, USMC, has been published under the supervision of the Division Special Services Section with the assistance of the Division Photographic Reproduction Sections. Individual credit to Pfc. Leo L. Wengert and Pfc. Herman E. Erke.

Quoted by a marine of this division, “We walked into Nagasaki unprepared, and we were shocked as hell at what was there”. Lyman Quigley remembered many years later, “Really, we were ignorant about what the hell the bomb was. We had no idea what we were going to see. We weren't given any instructions whatsoever. We were amazed, shocked--and yet stupefied. At the time, gruesome as the panorama of suffering was, it seemed to involve only other people's problems. Orders from above did not include any unusual precautionary guidelines or provisions. Quigley and his buddies drank city reservoir water, and worked in the midst of the most heavily damaged area without any protective clothing or special gear. They were not provided with radiation-dose badges or any other equipment to measure their exposure to radioactivity.