1950s Hiroshima Japan Atomic Bomb Glass Slides Esco Case Military Teaching Set

These four glass-mounted slides were part of a group of 132 glass-mounted slides used by Col. Richard Ware Mabee when he taught military science classes at the University of California in the 1950s. The set was purchased from his estate.
The entire slide set covers multiple topics of thermonuclear warfare, and these are images of the destruction of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb drop. They are original glass-mounted slides encased in metal Esco mounts. It appears that they are not widely published.

Col. Richard Ware Mabee won an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1936. After graduation in 1940, he fought in World War II in the Aleutian Islands. He then became battalion commander in the 11th Airborne Division in the Philippines. With Japan’s surrender, he took on occupation duties in Japan. Col. Mabee returned home to be an associate professor and professor of military science at the University of California, and earn his graduate degree in East Europe Studies from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. He was then selected for military attaché duties in Finland. He retired from active duty in 1961.

– Set of 4 glass-mounted projection slides
– c.1950s military science teaching material
– Hiroshima atomic bomb aftermath views
– Not widely published
– Housed in original metal Esco slide cases
– From Col. Richard Ware Mabee estate
– Part of a 132-slide instructional archive
– Black-and-white photographic images
– Encased slides are 2″x2″