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Contents:

• WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB
• THE INLIBLE ENOLA GAY
• THE NEW ENOLA GAY CONTROVERSY: PRO AND CON
• THE EXHIB THAT BOMBED: THE ENOLA GAY CONTROVERSY AND CONTTED MEMORY
• THE SMHSONIAN AND THE ENOLA GAY
• HISTORIANS PROTT NEW ENOLA GAY EXHIB
• THE NEW ENOLA GAY CONTROVERSY: HISTORIANS PROTT THE LATT SMHSONIAN EXHIB
• THE SMHSONIAN’S DECISN TO EXHIB THE ‘ENOLA GAY’

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB

After the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. The Enola Gay is a B-29 Superfortrs, which pilot Pl Tibbets named after his mother, and which had been stripped of everythg but the necsi, so as to be thoands of pounds lighter than an ordary plane of that make.

THE INLIBLE ENOLA GAY

While did not drop the bomb on Nagasaki, the Enola Gay did take flight to get data on the weather the lead-up to the send strike on Japan. In the aftermath of World War II, the Army Air Forc flew the Enola Gay durg an atomic tt program the Pacific; was then livered to be stored an airfield Arizona before beg flown to Illois and transferred to the Smhsonian July 1949. But even unr the ctody of the mm, the Enola Gay remaed at an air force base Texas.

The Commtee for the Rtoratn and Display of the Enola Gay now has 9, 000 signatur of prott. Adams, who is leavg his job after 10 relatively ntroversy-ee years, sent back a three-page answer stiffly turng down her requt for the Enola Gay. Demonstrators prott at the Enola Gay exhib at the the Smhsonian Natnal Air and Space Mm's Steven F.

THE NEW ENOLA GAY CONTROVERSY: PRO AND CON

And as long as is on display, the qutns rais are likely to ntue — after all, they have been wh the Enola Gay sce first beme a hoehold name.

THE EXHIB THAT BOMBED: THE ENOLA GAY CONTROVERSY AND CONTTED MEMORY

A sgle airplane livered the new weapon of mass stctn—the Enola Gay. On permanent display at the Natnal Air and Space Mm’s Udvar-Hazy Center Chantilly, Virgia, the Enola Gay was donated to the Smhsonian Instutn by the U.

Although missg a few parts, the Enola Gay is now rtored so generatns of Amerins n see the plane that left an lible mark the annals of time.

But you have to be that wh the missn of the Enola Gay, which brgs the dimensn of the role of technology war. As lead pilot, he named the Enola Gay after his mother.

THE SMHSONIAN AND THE ENOLA GAY

As the Enola Gay ma s fal approach to Hiroshima that day, Tibbets ascend to 31, 000 feet, then turned over ntrols to Ferebee.

The Enola Gay was then buffeted vlently when stck by two shock wav—one direct and the other reflected om the ground. In 1995, a 50th anniversary exhibn of the end of World War II, anized by curators and the director at the Natnal Air and Space Mm and displayg the felage of the Enola Gay, met wh unprecented cricism after veterans groups cricized the exhibn’s script for beg overly sympathetic to the Japane and the mm’s historians for beg misleadg and unpatrtic.

HISTORIANS PROTT NEW ENOLA GAY EXHIB

The Enola Gay was the bt aircraft of s era, but the velopment of that technology me wh a price. When the rtored Enola Gay went on permanent display 2003 at the Udvar-Hazy Center, attracted que a b of attentn. The rtored Enola Gay is now on view at the Smhsonian's Udvar-Hazy Center Chantilly, Virgia.

THE NEW ENOLA GAY CONTROVERSY: HISTORIANS PROTT THE LATT SMHSONIAN EXHIB

For years after the war, the crew of the Enola Gay never wavered their belief they did what they had to do. The New Enola Gay Controversy: Pro and Con | History News. the airplan is the B-29 Superfortrs Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic.

THE SMHSONIAN’S DECISN TO EXHIB THE ‘ENOLA GAY’

The petn advanc the ia that the display of the B-29 Superfortrs Enola Gay, as one of the 200 airplan the center, should be ed to “stimulate.