The text accompanying the plane talks about its technological prowess and how it 'found its niche on the other side of the globe'. 'From a consistency standpoint, we focus on the technical aspects.' 'We don't do it for other airplanes,' he told French agency AFP. However the museum's director, retired general John Dailey, has resisted calls for the death toll to be included. Thomas K Siemer, 73, of Columbus, Ohio, was charged with felony destruction of property and loitering, while Gregory Wright of Hagerstown, Maryland, faced a misdemeanour loitering charge.Ī panel of the Enola Gay was dented in the fracas. Survivors of the bombing are angry that the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum is not displaying casualty figures from the US-led attack.Ībout 140,000 Japanese died in the bombing itself, and many others later.Īround six survivors and 50 peace activists visited the new annex to the museum, some holding pictures of burned victims of the blast. Two men were arrested after red paint symbolising blood was thrown at the Enola Gay, a World War II B-29 bomber.
Protests have interrupted the opening of a new US museum display which includes the plane that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945.
Protesters said the exhibit should have included casualty figures
