Enola Gay

noun

1. the name of the American B-29 bomber, piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets, Jr., that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945.

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In that spirit, an exhibition was planned by the National Air and Space Museum to display the Enola Gay—the plane that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and helped bring World War II to an end.

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Years later, it still felt awkward dancing away to “Enola Gay,” and even more so after the group flashed images of the notorious aircraft and a mushroom cloud on screens.

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And the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan was initially flagged for removal from Pentagon documents, apparently due to the word "gay".

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The mid-1990s controversy over a nuanced exhibit around World War II and the Enola Gay, the bomber aircraft deployed in the United States' nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, that the Smithsonian later canceled is one such example.

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In a frenzy to ban anything deemed "DEI," the Defense Department flagged photos and articles featuring the Enola Gay for deletion from all websites and social media posts.

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