Object Details
- Subject
- Enola Gay (Bomber)
- National Air and Space Museum
- Enola Gay (Exhibition) (1995: Washington, D.C.)
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Summary
- The Enola Gay plane on display at the National Air and Space Museum. The Enola Gay exhibit is about the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima during World War Two. The plane was acquired by the Smithsonian in 1949. The exhibit was received with a lot of controversy.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 11-009, Smithsonian Photographic Services Collection
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- c. 1995
- Standard number
- 95-4624
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Object
- Interior
- Exhibit
- Physical description
- Number of Images: 1 ; Color: Color ; Size: 6.55w x 10h ; Type of Image: Object; Exhibit; Interior ; Medium: Photographic Print
- Place
- Hiroshima-shi (Japan)
- Japan
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- World War, 1939-1945
- B-29 bomber
- Airplanes
- Exhibitions
- Controversies
- Record ID
- siris_sic_12856
