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- The iconic mushroom cloud over Hiroshima is primarily known through photographs taken from planes, with the most famous one being a cropped snapshot by tail gunner Bob Caron.
- Other aerial photographs include a wider shot by Caron that better conveys scale, reconnaissance images of pyrocumulus smoke clouds hours after the bombing, and 16mm film footage by physicist Harold Agnew.
- Japanese ground-level photographs, such as those by Mitsuo Matsushige taken minutes after detonation, provide a striking sense of immediacy and scale, showing the cloud's immense size from a human perspective.
- Several photographs, including one from Honkawa Elementary School and another by Seizo Yamada, offer unique angles, though some timings and identifications remain debated or unclear.