The exhibition text summarized the history and development of the Boeing B-29 fleet used in bombing raids against Japan.Īnother portion of the exhibit detailed the painstaking efforts of Smithsonian aircraft restoration specialists who had spent more than a decade restoring parts of the Enola Gay for this exhibition.
Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past. History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Whose History is it Anyway Memory, Politics, and Historical Scholarship. The components on display included 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 included interviews with the crew before and after the mission including mission pilot Col. History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past - Ebook written by Tom Engelhardt, Edward T. It contained several major components of the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber used in the atomic mission that destroyed Hiroshima, Japan. Balancing acts: Science, Enola Gay and History Wars at the Smithsonian Edition 1st Edition First Published 1997 Imprint Routledge Pages 27 eBook ISBN. This past exhibition, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, told the story of the role of the Enola Gay in securing Japanese surrender.