Numbers of Deaths of Families and Mothers (ref.#2 pp.118)
__ Deaths as family unit reached the half of total deaths. The left graph shows number of families that died in NAGAOKA AIR RAID. Most of Family evacuated or hide into shelters together. So in the worst case, they died together.
__ Deaths as conbinations of mothers and children also happened so much. The right graph shows numbers of mothers and their children. 91 mothers were killed with their children. Burned bodies of a mother and children were seen after the air raid.
== A dead mother who looked like aged about 27, was eyewitnessed in Kaki River near Hiragata Shrine. She was dead and holding two children in both hands; one was a boy, the other was a girl.
(ref.#2 pp.209)
== A head of dead baby was seen at body of a pregnant mother. Mother's body was burned to be black like carbon, but the head of the baby was like a red ball. One said that only head was new-born, the other said that the abdomen was torn up. In anyway it was not bearable to see.
(ref.#1 pp24, pp284 and #2 pp256)
== A mother and three children were found dead by a bathtub. They poured water to themselves to cool down heat. But heat and lack of oxygen killed them. Little water remained at bottom of the bathtub. The husband went into priesthood after the war.
(ref.#1 pp50, ref.#2 pp329)
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