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title: Atlanta Daily World, daily edition, front page (Atlanta, Georgia, August 7, 1945)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/atlanta-daily-world-1945-08-07/
description: Front page of the Atlanta Daily World, City Edition, 7 August 1945. The banner is 'WITHERING JAP FIRE REPULSED ON OKINAWA', over a report on all-Black…
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** 1945 U.S. newspaper front page using the ethnic slur 'Jap' in its banner headline and the bomb item. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Atlanta Daily World, daily edition, front page (Atlanta, Georgia, 1945-08-07)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/atlanta-daily-world-1945-08-07.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/atlanta-daily-world-1945-08-07.jpg)

# Atlanta Daily World, daily edition, front page (Atlanta, Georgia, August 7, 1945)

Front page of the Atlanta Daily World, City Edition, 7 August 1945. The banner is 'WITHERING JAP FIRE REPULSED ON OKINAWA', over a report on all-Black Army units in the Okinawa fighting. The atomic bomb appears as a single-column item headed 'Atomic Bomb Loosed On Japs', credited to the Southern News Service (SNS), at the upper centre-right of the page.

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Atlanta Daily World
Published Every Morning Except Monday
VOLUME 17, NUMBER 318   ATLANTA (3), GEORGIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1945   PRICE FIVE CENTS   CITY EDITION

WITHERING JAP FIRE REPULSED ON OKINAWA

Correspondent Cites Heroism Of Negro GI's
Fierce Battle Nets Big Gains On Okinawa

Atomic Bomb Loosed On Japs
WASHINGTON — (SNS) — An atomic bomb has been loosed upon Japan.
President Truman disclosed in a White House statement Monday that the bomb, hailed as the greatest achievement of organized science, was dropped on Hiroshima, Japanese Army base. The supply city was said to have disappeared from the earth.
The bomb contains more power than 20,000 tons of TNT and produces more than 2,000 times the blast of the most powerful bomb ever dropped before.
Secretary of War Stimson predicted that the bomb would "prove a tremendous aid" in shortening the war with Japan.

Few Negro Officers To Be Left In Europe

New Constitution Up For Vote Today

Vote Today! It Is Your Privilege! It Is Your Duty!

[remaining items not transcribed]
```

Read from the 1600 px page image; some words in the narrow bomb column are partly obscured in the original scan, so minor phrases should be checked against the Library of Congress page. Other items are transcribed by headline only.

[← Azad Hind, English edition, front page (Syonan/Singapore, 20 July 1945)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/azad-hind-english-edition-1945-07-20/) [The Evening Star, daily edition, front page (Washington, D.C., August 7, 1945) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/evening-star-washington-1945-08-07/)

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