Interview with Aiko Allen, June 29, 1989

Project: Bonnet Productions: North Middle School, Henderson County (KY) Oral History Project

Interview Summary

Aiko Nakashima Allen was a World War II atomic bomb victim who survived the attack on Nagasaki, Japan. She describes her experiences as a child in wartime Japan and gives a detailed account of the bombing and her feelings on nuclear weapons. The interviews in this collection were conducted by middle school students as part of an educational media project under the direction of Henderson County North Middle School teacher Roy Pullam.

Interview Accession

2007oh112_hchs025

Interviewee Name

Aiko Nakashima Allen

Interviewer Name

Rachel Roster

Interview Date

1989-06-29

Interview Keyword

WWII Food rationing Survival techniques Supply rationing Hiroshima-shi Nagasaki (Japan) Hiroshima (Japan) Bombing victims Bombing of Hiroshima Bombing of Nagasaki Casualties Civilians Burn victims Bombing victims Red Cross Clinic Atomic bombs

Interview LC Subject

World War II Japan Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941. Military police. Prisoners of war Nagasaki-shi (Japan) Hiroshima-shi (Japan) Nuclear weapons Bombings War casualties. American Red Cross Propaganda Citizenship

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Allen, Aiko Nakashima Interview by Rachel Roster. 29 Jun. 1989. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

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Allen, Aiko Nakashima, interview by Rachel Roster. June 29, 1989, Bonnet Productions: North Middle School, Henderson County (KY) Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

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