Where is the enola gay airplane housed

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What will visitors looking at the plane in the museum's new $311 million annex learn? According to the museum's web site, the label next to the plane will tell visitors that the B-29 'was the most sophisticated propeller-driven bomber of World War II' that it was 'the first bomber to house its crew in pressurized compartments' that the plane was designed to fight in Europe but 'found its niche' in the Pacific, where it dropped a variety of weapons, including nuclear bombs that the Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb in combat on Hiroshima on Augthat Bockscar dropped a second atomic bomb that Bockscar is on display in Dayton, Ohio that the Enola Gay also flew as a reconnaissance aircraft on the Nagasaki mission and that the Great Artiste, another B-29, flew on both missions. 'Jack' Dailey said, 'Because of the work of some very talented men and women, future generations will sense first-hand the unalterable significance of this aircraft in World War II and human history. 18, press release from The National Air and Space Museum: 'In presenting the reassembled Enola Gay, museum director Gen.

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