More specific information can be requested by contacting the Archives Research Request. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. The broad outlines of the exhibit plan have been known for some time. In 1995, the Smithsonians National Air and Space Museum (NASM) created an exhibit to feature the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb. The plan, however, is to present the aircraft as part of an emotionally-charged program about the atomic bomb.
The majority of the Archives Department's public reference requests can be answered using material in these files, which may be accessed through the Reading Room at the Steven F. The National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution is completing preparations to show the Enola Gay in an exhibit that will open in May 1995. Search this Container:Īrchival materials Scope and Contents note:
