Painstakingly researched, the story behind the decision to send the Enola Gay to bomb Hiroshima is told. A detailed history of the World War II American B-29 Enola Gay, its crew, and the controversial mission to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. A fiery controversy ensued that demonstrated the competing historical narratives.
Matsuo took their way through the shopping center, already full of. The story of the USS Arizona Memorial as it unfolded from the early 1990s to the present opens up a historical perspective on the memorial as a process in which representations are continually in motion-something that becomes most acute in moments of institutional change, as in making a new film or designing a new museum, as well as in moments of controversy where history and its representation become objects of discussion. 4.37 Rating details 1,056 ratings 104 reviews. For the 50 th anniversary of the end of World War II, the National Air and Space Museum (NASM) proposed an exhibition that would include displaying the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress that was used to drop the bomb on Hiroshima. A rim of mountains runs around the other three sides of the delta. This introduction describes the book’s project, telling a story about the people and activities that make up the life of a highly public national war memorial as it evolved throughout its postwar career.