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Hiroshima survivors do not want Enola Gay to be displayed

Hiroshima, Japan - "It is an insult!"

After Washington’s Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum unveiled on Monday the Enola Gay, the restored Boeing B-29 used to drop the bomb that razed Hiroshima (see news reported by AVIONEWS), survivors of the United States’ 1945 bombing in western Japan lashed out the public display of the aircraft scheduled for December 15. "For us the Enola Gay just equals the atomic bomb," said Sunao Tsuboi, the...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 51749
Rome, Italy, 08/20/2003 12:55
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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