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GUEST: These are some
memorabilia from World
War II that I got from
my father. He joined

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the Army and joined the Medical
Corps 361st station hospital,
which went to the Philippines.

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After Japan surrendered,
they sailed up Hiroshima
Bay and stopped in
Kure, where there was a

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naval hospital. They were just
ten miles from Hiroshima, which
had just been bombed three

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weeks earlier. And when
they went up to Hiroshima
to provide medical care,
they found complete

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devastation. Everything was
glazed. And in the rubble,
he found these artifacts left

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over that had not been
completely destroyed
but had been blasted
with sand that turned

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to glass from the intense
heat of the explosion.

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APPRAISER: When you opened the
box and you brought these out,
it was immediately evident

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to me what they were. It's a
little amazing to think that
here were American G.I.s in

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and amongst the survivors
fairly soon after the fact. When
you look at an artifact like

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this, it has a profound impact
on you. You realize this was
there. This was in Hiroshima

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when that bomb went off. This
was in somebody's house. I've
heard the explanation that it

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was dust and things in the air
that were turned to glass, I've
also come across individuals

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who support the idea that it
was glass that melted that was
in the vicinity of the objects.

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Every once in a while,
an artifact really
speaks to you. Just by
looking at that artifact,

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that tells what you need to
know about the atomic explosion
at Hiroshima. And that's,

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that's why it raised the hair
on my arm when you brought
it out of the box, and that's

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one of the reasons why it
is profoundly important
that these artifacts
exist in the world, and

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it's also a reason why people
would be upset that there would
be a value associated with

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them. Because of the horrendous
nature of the event that
happened. Artifacts like this

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are sought out by collectors
and museums in order to tell
that story. From a monetary

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value perspective today, a
retail price for these on the
market would be between $2,000

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and $3,000.

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Guest: Mm-hmm.