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Enola Gay Archive 

 

 

Air Force Magazine Articles and Editorials 

 

  

Revisionism Gone Wrong
April 2004
Ten years ago this month, an Air Force Magazine article alerted the public to the Smithsonian's plans for the Enola Gay.

Enola Gay II
December 2003

War Stories at Air and Space
April 1994

At the Smithsonian, history grapples with cultural angst.

The Decision That Launched the Enola Gay
April 1994

In April 1945, the new President learned the most closely held secret of the war.

“The Last Act” at Air and Space
September 1994

The Enola Gay exhibit still lacks balance and still is emotionally charged, but the Smithsonian says the plans are final.

Museum Proposes to Change Enola Gay Exhibition
October 1994

Memo for the Record

The Three Doctors and the Enola Gay
November 1994

Under fire from Congress and public opinion, curators at the Air and Space Museum are making changes to their plan for exhibiting the famous B-29.

Editorial: Airplanes in the Mist
December 1994

People come to the Air and Space Museum to see restored airplanes, not for counterculture pageants and spiels about the ozone layer.

Air and Space Museum Hit By Academic Backlash
January 1995

 

Political Exhibit Crashes at the Smithsonian
March 1995

 

Smithsonian Continues the Cleanup
April 1995

 

Editorial: Japan’s Struggle With History
May 1995

The truth is that imperial Japan started the war, waged it savagely, and refused to surrender until the bombs fell.

Air and Space Museum Director Resigns
June 1995

Exhibit Blunders Force Smithsonian Probe
July 1995

Presenting the Enola Gay
August 1995

The Activists and the Enola Gay
September 1995

The Smithsonian has cleaned up its act, but the cause lives on with those who claim we bamboozled the press, Congress, and the public.

The Revelations of Martin Harwit
December 1996

The former director of the National Air and Space Museum has written a book about the Enola Gay controversy.

Verbatim

Preemptive Action
"Since the [Defense] Department's acceptance of the independent estimates last fall, we've been, in just about every respect, acting as if the program were in a Nunn-McCurdy breach. ... We've been taking all of the mitigating and corrective action that we would take as if there were a Nunn-McCurdy breach."
—Air Force Secretary Michael Donley, discussing with reporters the restructure of the F-35 strike fighter program announced in February 2010 and the probability that the program will soon exceed Nunn-McCurdy cost-monitoring thresholds that would necessitate, per US law, a program review and corrective steps, Washington, D.C., March 2, 2010. 

Verbatim

Message for Grandma
"She has working for her as a citizen in the United States an Air Force Reserve that has some very talented, capable, patriotic, and willing individuals doing the business to keep this nation free. Just like her generation—the 'Greatest Generation'—was, I am very proud of the folks that we have got. If not the second greatest, then they are an extension of the greatest generation and they are ready, willing, and able to do the things that she would want them to do to make sure we keep our freedoms."
—Lt. Gen. Charles Stenner, Air Force Reserve chief, responding to a reporter's question on what the reporter should tell his 85-year-old grandmother to convey to her the importance of Air Force Reservists to the nation's security, Orlando, Fla., Feb. 19, 2010.

 

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