Officers' Steward Patricia Potton (née Gervaise)

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Bomb Damage

Inventory of the Donation

  • Photographs of atomic bomb damage in Nagasaki (taken by her husband, Frank Potton)
  • Book, The ABC of Cookery, 1945
  • Scrap book containing photographs and memos of Dunoon and H.M.S. Osprey, also her OS (Officers' Steward) badge
  • Typescript memoir with scanned photographs
Bomb damage in Nagasaki "Showing the strange effect on trees"
"Showing the strange effect on trees"

The photographs on this page are of atomic bomb damage in Nagasaki and were taken by Patricia Potton's husband, Frank Potton.

Bomb damage in Nagasaki: "Part of the Mitsubishi Aircraft Factory which was put entirely out of action. Note shelter entrance."
"Part of the Mitsubishi Aircraft Factory which was put entirely out of action. Note shelter entrance."
 Bomb damage in Nagasaki: Detail showing "The corner of the Mitsubishi Aircraft Factory."
Detail showing "The corner of the Mitsubishi Aircraft Factory."
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General experience.
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