Each section of the text is related to a display in the exhibition. See also: Enola Gay exhibition controversy In 1995, controversy arose over the exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum with the display of the Enola Gay, the Superfortress used by the United States to drop the first atomic bomb used in World War II.
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Michael Heyman, at the beginning of the script address the controversy generated by the first plans and script for the exhibition that "provoked intense criticism from World War II veterans and others who felt the original planned exhibit portrayed the United States as the aggressor and the Japanese as victims and reflected unfavorably on the valor and courage of American veterans." The Museum eventually replaced the original planned exhibit with a simpler display in which the focus was on the restoration of the Enola Gay by the Smithsonian, explanatory material on the aircraft, ancillary topics related to the use of the first atomic bomb, and a video about the Enola Gay's crew. It featured the forward fuselage and propeller of the plane, a description of the planes mission, an account of the planes painstaking restoration, and video reminiscences of the men who flew it.
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Permission from the CMA to post the full published text of my article is much appreciated. On June 28, 1995, an abbreviated exhibition on the Enola Gay the B-29 bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan did open at the National Air and Space Museum. The texts included here that did not appear in print in the published article originally are underlined. Remarks by the Smithsonian's Secretary, I. It analyses two books published as a result of the fearsome 1994-1995 controversy that raged over the National Air and Space Museum’s proposed Enola Gay exhibition. The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki led to the surrender of Japan on August 14, 1945. In the 1990s, the Smithsonian Institutions.
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This text accompanied the Smithsonian Institution's display, "Enola Gay," at the National Air and Space Museum commemorating the end of World War II and the role played by the B-29 aircraft, Enola Gay, that on Augcarried the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, Japan. In 1995, the Smithsonians National Air and Space Museum (NASM) created an exhibit to feature the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb. Fifty years after Hiroshima, the airplane flew into controversy of a different sort.