There's a signed photo of Tibbets and his crew in Grandpa's papers. It allows me to examine more deeply the interactions of groups representing divergent interests within the United States, in the context of global relations with a relative equal, rather than a dominated subject. The Enola Gay, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, is seen on display July 29, 2020, at the Steven F. He also met Paul Tibbets, the pioneering pilot of the Enola Gay, the specially-modified B-29 Superfortress that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The subject is how the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was to be represented by a museum of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. Their prominence is not surprising, since they are institutions in which a nation's qualities are ‘written’ or ‘shown.’ In this chapter I turn my attention to an important polemic in which two nations are involved: the United States and Japan. Although virtually any location to which access is relatively unrestricted may give rise to disputes, museums in particular have become foci of these debates. In recent years, controversies concerning the construction of displays of historical events have turned attention to the role of these public sitings. It was primarily used in the Pacific theater to bomb Japanese. Museums as Contested Sites of Remembrance: The Enola Gay Affair Museums as Contested Sites of Remembrance: The Enola Gay Affair The B-29 was developed as a strategic long-range bomber for the US war effort in World War II.