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The Air Force Association claims the proposed exhibition is a slap in the face to all Americans. "If the Enola Gay is going to be displayed, they should also say what happened beneath the plane on the day the bomb was dropped," said Sunao Tsuboi, who was about one and a half kilometres from the centre of the blast on August 6, 1945. The Committee for the Restoration and Display of the Enola Gay now has 9,000 signatures of protest. They accuse the museum of dishonouring the memory of the scores of thousands of civilians killed in the blast, and a second atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki three days later, by not displaying casualty figures next to the plane. The Enola Gay is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets. Three ageing Hiroshima victims travelled from Japan to lodge written protests with US President George W Bush and the National Air and Space Museum, a branch of the Smithsonian Institution, before the bomber named Enola Gay goes on public display today. Enola Gay flew as the advance weather reconnaissance aircraft that day. Air Force Museum near Dayton, Ohio) dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. When the museums plan were revealed, initially an article in Air Force Magazine. Three days later, Bockscar (on display at the U.S. 6, 1945, the B-29 Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Fifty-eight years after being devastated by a US atomic bomb, Hiroshima survivors pleaded with the United States today to honour their pain before the plane that dropped the bomb goes on public display. On August 6, 1945, this Martin-built B-29-45-MO dropped the first atomic weapon used in combat on Hiroshima, Japan.