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The museum bowed to demands to stress the lives the A-bomb saved by bringing the War II to an end. The Hiroshima Hidankyo and the Gensuikyo, the two main victims' associations, have told the museum that "the display rationalises the bombing and as such it is absolutely unforgivable".Īn exhibition of the plane in 1995 sparked outrage, as war veterans and the US Senate said it over-emphasised Japanese casualties. This is an awesome museum, but it wasn't designed for photography. I was in awe of this flying machine when I first saw it at the Udvar-Hazy National Air and Space Museum. Exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum, and the Vietnam Era Educational. A group of historians vigorously defend the museum, but a dispute over the number of lives saved by dropping the bomb dooms negotiations for an exhibit. The Enola Gay is a tangible piece of history. The Historic Wendover Airfield now operates a museum at the former base as. Japanese survivors have called on the Smithsonian Institution to scrap plans to display the giant B-29 Superfortress, the centrepiece of a new air and space exhibition in Washington.Ĭity officials from Hiroshima are also considering a formal complaint about the display, which is to focus narrowly on the technological achievement of the first A-bomb drop. related exhibits/memorials: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Enola Gay. Three days later, the B-29 Bockscar dropped the Fat Man plutonium bomb on Nagasaki.
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04:00:00 PDT Washington - Hoping to end months of controversy, Smithsonian Institution Secretary I. AMERICA'S most distinguished museum has been plunged into a diplomatic firestorm by plans to display the Enola Gay, the World War II aircraft that dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima, without any mention of deaths inflicted on the ground, estimated at up to 250,000. Enola Gay Exhibit Is Scuttled / Smithsonian analysis of atomic bombing angered vets.