Rebuilt Enola Gay Unveiled in Washington; "Most Glorious Bird Ever To Take Wing"

Yahoo ^ | August 19,2003

[the_greatest_country_ever]

The Enola Gay- The Most Glorious Bird Ever To Take Wing.

Aiko Herzig said she had hoped scenes of the human impact could have been included.

How so very Jap-py of her. Sure. We'd be more than happy (jappy?) to oblige. Where would you like them placed? Next to the exhibition of gruesome human guinea-pig victims experimented on by Japan's secret war-time bacteriological laboratories, the notorious Unit 731, every bit the equal of their Auschwitz counterparts?

Where autopsies were performed on fully concious victims, specifically WITHOUT any sort of anesthesia as not to prejudice the results in any way?

Or how about just across the photo memorial dedicated to the horrific massacre on the Chinese mainland, The Japanese "Rape of Nanjing" where Chinese youth chained to a fence were lined up to have their heads lopped off as machete practice for the Jap army?

God knows, I could go on and on but I believe I've made my point.

The unmitigated, utterly brazen arrogance of these miscreants... Please. Don't get me started....

[OXENinFLA]

A little bit of triva....

What was the name of the plane that droped "Fat Man"?

[South40]

[al_c]

What was the name of the plane that droped "Fat Man"?

Bockscar

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

"Boch's Car" IIRC.

[Dixiekraut]

Bock's Car?

[Blood of Tyrants]

That clip that shows Japanese soldiers throwing up a live Chinese baby and using it for bayonet practice should be projected in a continuous loop on a wall.

[rightandproudofit]

I didn't know Woody Harrelson piloted the Enola Gay!
(look at the picture above)

[Petronski]

That one's too easy. How about this...

Nagasaki was second choice on August 9th. Which Japanese city was spared by cloud cover?

[Dixiekraut]

Isn't that the same guy in the doctored photo taken at the top of the WTC, as the hijacked plane is coming in? It made the rounds on the internet before it was debunked on Snopes.com.

[South40]

Nagasaki was second choice on August 9th. Which Japanese city was spared by cloud cover?

Kokura

[Dixiekraut]

Isn't that the same guy in the doctored photo taken at the top of the WTC, as the hijacked plane is coming in? It made the rounds on the internet before it was debunked on Snopes.com.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Daso told Reuters that death toll estimates varied widely

That didn't stop Reuters (always looking for an excuse to bash the USA) from flatly stating at the beginning of the article that the Hiroshima bomb killed "more than 140,000 people."

[South40]

You mean this?

[KriegerGeist]

Do you think the Enola Gay is fit now to fly over Syria? She could be loaded up with a "fatter boy" that weighs half as much and greases twice as many...

[Joe Brower]

Yep, that's him. He's since been "PhotoShopped" all over creation. Do a google search on "tourist guy".

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Think you might get a kick out of this true story: a friend of mine was a Marine stationed in Hawaii. One day in Pearl Harbor a group of Japanese tourists approached him and a fellow Marine and asked "where is the (USS) Arizona."

To which my friend's Marine buddy replied: "right where you f---ing left it."

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I seem to recall the Smithsonian botched up its first try at displaying the B-29. They were about to take a distictly leftist (and sympathetic to Japan) view of the last weeks of the war. Fortunately, someone put a stop to this ? Anyone remember this detail ?

[Celtic Conservative]

"bockscar" currently on display at the USAF museum, Dayton, ohio.

Slainte,

CC

[wideminded]

I don't believe that the plane should not be displayed out of some regret or shame for our past, but isn't it kind of an "attractive nuisance"? It's just begging for one or more radical nutcases to cause problems in the new Air and Space museum annex. Hopefully they have good security and none of the other aircraft will be damaged when something happens.