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English: United States Under Secretary of the Navy Ralph Austin Bard's signature cropped from his famous memorandum to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson advocating a warning to Japan before dropping the atomic bomb. A facsimile of the memorandum is found at http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB162/23.pdf
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Source "Memorandum on the Use of S-1 Bomb," United States National Archives and Records Administration: RG 77, MED, H-B files, folder no. 77 (microfilm)
Author Ralph A. Bard

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This signature is believed to be ineligible for copyright and therefore in the public domain because it falls below the required level of originality for copyright protection both in the United States and in the source country (if different). In this case, the source country (e.g. the country of nationality of the signatory) is believed to be United States of America.
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27 June 1945

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