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Although several attempts were made to rewrite the script of the exhibit, congressional and public pressure eventually led to the cancellation of the exhibit in January 1995 and to the resignation of the Director of the Museum, Martin Harwit, in May.Ĭollected by historian Waldo Heinrichs, the Enola Gay Controversy Collection contains the various versions of the scripts of the planned exhibition and copies of correspondence, memos, publications, and the three volumes of “Revisionism gone wrong: Analysis of the Enola Gay controversy” issued by the Air Force Association. Enola Gay are a noise rock, post-punk band from Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was, as I later found out, their first showing in England after attaining a noisy recognition from the likes of Fred Perry Subculture, Iggy Pop and SXSW.
By mid-summer, the Air Force Association and American Legion led opposition to the exhibit, fearing that it would not present a balanced view of the events and that it would focus exclusively on the “horrors of war” and an alleged “moral equivalence” between Japan and the United States. A summer where I serendipitously stumbled upon Enola Gay at the 100 Club. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia and Bockscar is at the National Museum of the USAF in Dayton, Ohio). Early in 1993, curators began to develop plans for an exhibit that would center around the Enola Gay, the B-29 Stratofortress bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, but opposition from veterans’ groups rose almost immediately. Colonel Paul Tibbets waves from Enola Gay before heading to Hiroshima in 1945 Enola Gay 2013 Bockscar 2009 Both aircraft have been preserved and are on display today in museums in the United States ( Enola Gay is a the Steven F. Enola Gay You should have stayed at home yesterday Ah-ha, words cant describe The feeling and the way you lied These games you play Theyre gonna end in more than tears some day Ah-ha, Enola Gay. On January 30, 1995, the National Air and Space Museum capitulated to popular and political pressure and scuttled an exhibit they had planned to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War.