They represent the thousands of other B-29s that flew and hundreds of thousands of airmen who participated in that conflict.' The events that this airplane participated in 1945 represent many things. 'The Enola Gay is much more than an artifact,' Daso said. The proposed exhibition was scrapped in favor of a smaller, straightforward one that featured the front portion of the Enola Gay's fuselage and confined itself to the details of the mission.Īccording to Dik Daso, curator of modern military aircraft at the museum, B-29s dropping incendiary bombs killed far more Japanese in Tokyo in one night than died at either Hiroshima or Nagasaki, the second and last target struck with an American nuclear weapon.
The museum's director at the time, Martin Harwit, resigned to avoid demotion.
