Seems like "Enola Gay" was caught in a revisionist storm... AGAIN!!

The logical approach seems to be to make Enola Gay the centrepiece
of an exhibition dealing with the end of the war in the Pacific.

Been there, done that! NASM got so badly burned in 1994/95, doing
exactly what you suggest, that likely it was determined not to touch
the word Hiroshima with a ten-foot pole.

I don't know what happened to the actual exhibit (though I went to it,
and walked through the Enola Gay fuselage--tiny!). I suppose the
placards were simply removed? However, the accompanying book was
pulped by Smithsonian Institution Press, and the NASM director was
famously fired.

The problem with that exhibit was that it presented Little Boy /
Hiroshima as an atrocity, without mentioning the fact that Japan was
the aggressor in the Pacific War, and one of the nastiest ever known.
That was what upset the vets, and through them the Congress.

I suppose the curators said something on the order of: Well! if they
don't want to hear what *we* have to say, then we won't say
*anything*! So there!

all the best -- Dan Ford
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