Government 'for the increase and diffusion of knowledge'. Museum specialists continued to restore the remaining components of the airplane, and after an additional nine years the fully assembled Enola Gay went on permanent display at the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. The Smithsonian Institution (/ s m s o n i n / smith-SOH-nee-n), or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums and education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. 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. It contains several major components of the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber used in the atomic mission that destroyed Hiroshima, Japan. 'The new Enola Gay exhibit acknowledges the planes role in the bombing and presents details such as the B-29s having been the first pressurized bomber, but does not mention atomic bomb casualties.' 2003. 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. Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, African Art.
