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. 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 B-29 bomber stayed airborne, hovering above a terrifying.
6, 1945, a city died, and 70,000 of its inhabitants. It contains several major components of the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber used in the atomic mission that destroyed Hiroshima, Japan. A fter the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 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. Enola Gay, the B-29bomber that was used by the United States on August 6, 1945, to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, the first time the explosive device had been used on an enemy target. Print on poster reads The National Air and Space Museum Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. In 1995, the curators and staff attempted to raise the academic standards of the museum by incorporating controversy into the museum experience. Photo-stock color wartime poster of the 'Enola Gay.' Print on poster reads 'The National Air and Space Museum Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Photo-stock color wartime poster of the Enola Gay. The academic historians vary in their answers to this questions, which in turn sparked the idea for the Enola Gay exhibit at the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum.