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By mid-summer, the Air Force Association and American Legion led opposition to the exhibit, fearing that it would not present a balanced view of the events and that it would focus exclusively on the “horrors of war” and an alleged “moral equivalence” between Japan and the United States. frustration, Harwit resigned in May 1995, leaving the museums now heavily bowd- lerized exhibition to celebrate the Enola Gay simply as an airplane.40. the Enola Gay exhibit as announced by the Smithsonian Institution on Octo('8ei Genbakuten' 1994: 14). Early in 1993, curators began to develop plans for an exhibit that would center around the Enola Gay, the B-29 Stratofortress bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, but opposition from veterans’ groups rose almost immediately. What appalled so many veterans and commentators was not the museums desire to set the Enola Gay in the larger context of the end of World War II, or to portray. What does exhibiting the Enola Gayin a museum mean This paper attempts to reveal the essential meaning of the exhibition. THE 'ENOLA GAY' This display commemorates the end of World War II and the role of the B-29 Enola Gay in the atomic mission that destroyed Hiroshima and, along with the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, led to the surrender of Japan on August 14, 1945. On January 30, 1995, the National Air and Space Museum capitulated to popular and political pressure and scuttled an exhibit they had planned to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War.