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Pictured: Able Seaman John Davis, right. <br />
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An extremely rare twisted enamel sign which survived the atomic bomb blast at Hiroshima has emerged for sale with a British auctioneers for £5,000.<br />
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The 23ins by 5ins object, which has signs of melting, was recovered from the ruins of a torpedo factory in the decimated Japanese city by a British sailor.<br />
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Able Seaman John Davis was in the Far East serving on HMS Formidable when the US dropped the lethal device on August 6, 1945 which killed 140,000 people, hastening the end of World War Two.<br />
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Mr Davis, not thinking the item could be radioactive, picked it up and brought it back to Britain alongside a Japanese silk flag and some currency.