# Nagasaki temple destroyed

- By: Cpl. Lynn P. Walker, Jr. (Marine Corps)
- Date: Taken on 24 September 1945
- Classification: Sculpture
- Credit line: archive copy at the Wayback Machine "War and Conflict" image collection\] (HD-SN-99-02900)
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nagasaki_temple_destroyed.jpg)
- Rights: Public domain
- Picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Nagasaki_temple_destroyed.jpg/1920px-Nagasaki_temple_destroyed.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Battered religious figures stand watch on a hill above a tattered valley. Nagasaki, Japan. September 24, 1945, 6 weeks after the city was destroyed by the world's second atomic bomb attack. Photo by Cpl. Lynn P. Walker, Jr. (Marine Corps) NARA FILE #: 127-N-136176