The Enola Gay is a B-29 bomber that was used in the bombing of Japan. It was flown by the pilot, Paul Tibbets who named the plane after his mother, Enola Gay Tibbets. Tibbets flew the plane on August 6, 1945, carrying a bomb, nicknamed Little Boy that was a result of the Manhattan Project. The bomb dropped on Hiroshima and left tens of thousands of people dead (“Enola Gay pilot felt dropping atomic bomb was his duty.”). The dropping of the bombs, Big Boy and Little Boy caused a lot of controversy, because of the repercussions it left in Japan. Many thousands of people died or suffered injury as a result of the bombing. The pilot of the Enola Gay stated in an interview, “I viewed my mission as one to save lives...I didn't bomb Pearl Harbor. I didn't start the war. But I was going to finish it.” (“Enola Gay pilot felt dropping atomic bomb was his duty”). Many people consider Paul Tibbets a symbol of atomic warfare, but we must remember that he was a pilot following orders. He honestly believed that if he had not dropped the bomb, “It would have been morally wrong if we'd have had that weapon and not used it and let a million more people die” (“Enola Gay pilot felt dropping atomic bomb was his duty”). Tibbets said this in a PBS interview for the 50th anniversary of the event. The use of the Enola Gay in the Great War or World War I was controversial because of its use in the bombing of Japanese citizens, many of whom were not soldiers. Another controversy in which the Enola Gay is involved is known simply as the Enola Gay Controversy.
The Enola Gay Controversy was about putting the Enola Gay on display for a museum exhibit. Veterans groups wanted it on display. The Smithsonian had the bomber, but it was disassembled and many thieves ...
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The danger of misusing history in the case of the Enola Gay Controversy is leaving out an entire story. The argument can be made that a nationalistic history does not need to be complete, but a complete history is important. The museum as well as its curators for the Enola Gay exhibit was trying to fuse the two histories and the veterans were pushing a skewed nationalistic version of the history. In an effort to give a complete history, the history of the Enola Gay were used, skewed and misused because the museum was making an effort to make all of the groups happy, but the history of the Enola Gay is a controversial history, so making everyone happy was impossible. This is the reason that the original exhibit did not come into fruition because all of the parties could not agree on the history.
The Enola Gay which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC."
Throughout the devastating years of World War II, hundreds of thousands of people lost their lives on the western front. Although there were numerous casualties, nothing can compare to the incidents that ended World War II, the dropping of the most destructive weapon known to mankind, the atomic bomb in Japan. In the years following the incident, much controversy had begun to arise when historians decided to construct an exhibit to commemorate the United States’ victory over the Japanese empire by displaying the air plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Enola Gay. As Linenthal stated, “For fifty years, these two stories – of a weapon that brought peace and victory, and of a weapon that brought destruction and fear to the world – rested uneasily in American consciousness” (Linenthal 2). Linenthal, throughout his writing, displays
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... he has no regrets about using the bomb. In fact, he actually named the plane Enola Gay after his mother. Source six provides a quote from Tibbets stating that he "did as I was told," and that he was defending his country to the best of his ability. He also says that he knew that he would be killing a lot of people, but he would also save a lot of lives because then the US would not have to invade Japan. Tibbets recognizes that innocent people were killed but says, "We've never fought a damn war anywhere in the world where they didn't kill innocent people." These quotes provide evidence that displays that Tibbets believes it was completely necessary to bomb Hiroshima even knowing that countless lives would be lost.
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