6, 1945, mission, says in the video that Allied casualties worsened as the war in the Pacific continued after victory in Europe. Theodore “Dutch” Van Kirk, the navigator on the Aug. Originally, the exhibit was to consider the beginning of the Cold War and the use of nuclear power. Plans called for a close look at the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki illustrated with photographs and objects borrowed from Japanese museums. Originally, the Smithsonian Institution planned to put on a show of historic sweep, a display that would follow the trail of war leading to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and look at the factors President Harry S Truman and his advisers weighed before deciding to use nuclear weapons. Originally, of course, airplane parts were not meant to dominate. And there is the front part of the Enola Gay fuselage, an immense gleaming aluminum tube lighted inside to show the cockpit and the bomb bay. The display, which opens to the public today, features one whole propeller and parts of another, one of the bomber’s four Wright Cyclone radial engines, one radar antenna, a 20-foot tall tail section, a navigator’s astro scope and even a swatch of airplane insulation. If you like looking at airplane parts, you’ll enjoy the National Air and Space Museum’s new exhibit of the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Baltimore Sun eNewspaper Home Page Close Menu
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