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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.