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The exhibition text summarizes the history and development of the Boeing B-29 fleet used in bombing raids against Japan.Īnother portion of the exhibit detailes the painstaking efforts of Smithsonian aircraft restoration specialists who had spent more than a decade restoring parts of the Enola Gay for this exhibition. Veterans groups protest and bring major revisions to the Smithsonians planned exhibit on the 50th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshim. Enola Gay Was a Specially Modified Aircraft for an Unthinkable Secret Task There once was a B-29 Superfortress bomber known to entire generations of Americans. The components on display include two engines, the vertical stabilizer, an aileron, propellers, and the forward fuselage that contains the bomb bay.Ī video presentation about the Enola Gay's mission includeds interviews with the crew before and after the mission including mission pilot Col. The controversy had broad implications for the field of history and the arena of American public consciousness. It contains several major components of the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber used in the atomic mission that destroyed Hiroshima, Japan. This paper examines the SmithsonianEnola Gay controversy, an event which took place between 19. This exhibition, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, tells the story of the role of the Enola Gay in securing Japanese surrender.