History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past

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Summary

A collection of essays by eight historians address the controversy at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in the early 1990s over the display of the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima at the close of World War II.

Subject

  • Enola Gay (Bomber)
  • National Air and Space Museum
  • National Air and Space Museum Research Advisory Committee
  • Air Force Association
  • Enola Gay (Exhibition) (1995: Washington, D.C.)
  • Crossroads: The End of World War II, the Atomic Bomb, and the Origins of the Cold War, The (Exhibition)

Category

Smithsonian History Bibliography

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1996

Topic

  • Politics and culture
  • Airplanes
  • Atomic bomb
  • Veterans
  • Controversies
  • Aeronautics
  • Lobbying
  • Exhibitions
  • B-29 bomber
  • Federal Government, Relations with SI

Place

  • Hiroshima-shi (Japan)
  • Nagasaki-shi (Japan)

Physical description

Number of pages: 301; Page numbers : 1-295

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