Enola Gay flies into new A-bomb controversy

(EXCERPT) By David Rennie in Washington and Colin Joyce in Tokyo
(Filed: 21/08/2003)

America's most distinguished museum has been plunged into a diplomatic
firestorm by plans to display the Enola Gay, the Second World War
aircraft that dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima, without any mention
of casualties inflicted on the ground.

Japanese survivors have called on the Smithsonian Institution to scrap
plans to display the giant B-29 Superfortress, the centrepiece of a
new air and space exhibition just outside Washington.

City officials from Hiroshima said they were also considering a formal
complaint about the display, which is to focus narrowly on the
technological achievement of the first A-bomb drop.

The Hiroshima Hidankyo and the Gensuikyo, the two main victims'
associa...

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