Veterans' groups and military historians have attacked the original scripts and subsequent versions as revisionist and sympathetic to the Japanese without taking into account the circumstances of the war in the Pacific. The original exhibition focused on the destruction and casualties suffered by the Japanese.
6, 1945, that dropped the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. 'They were not looking for analysis, and, frankly, we did not give enough thought to the intense feelings such an analysis would evoke.' The Enola Gay flew the mission Aug. 'In this important anniversary year, veterans and their families were expecting, and rightly so, that the nation would honor and commemorate their valor and sacrifice,' Heyman said. Citing a 'basic error in attempting to couple an historical treatment of the use of atomic weapons with the 50th anniversary commemoration of the end of the war,' Heyman decided to exhibit the Enola Gay only in the context of its role in ending the war in the Pacific. Michael Heyman announced to the Board of Regents Monday his decision to replace the controversial Enola Gay exhibition scheduled to open in May at the National Air and Space Museum. 30 - Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution I.
