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 ===== Pardon, Restoration & Return to Service ===== ===== Pardon, Restoration & Return to Service =====
  
-[{{ :vehicles:enolaimprisoned.jpg?350|Enola Gay, dismembered during its stint in solitary confinement at Suitland.}}]+[{{ :vehicles:enolaimprisoned.jpg?350|The Enola Gay, dismembered during its stint in solitary confinement at Suitland.}}]
  
 Stripped of its wings and many other organs, the Enola Gay remained in solitary confinement at Suitland for many years. Like many veterans, the Enola Gay suffered from combat-induced PTSD, and relived the horrors of war every day in its own personal hell. By the early 1980s, two veterans of the 509th, **Don Rehl** and **Frank B. Stewart**, were made aware of their comrade's inhumane treatment, and began lobbying for the Enola Gay to be Pardoned. They enlisted Tibbets and Senator Barry Goldwater in their campaign. In 1983, Walter J. Boyne, a former B-52 pilot with the Strategic Air Command, became director of the National Air and Space Museum, and he made the restoration of the Enola Gay's rights & dignity a priority. Looking at the pieces of the aircraft, Tibbets recalled, was a //"sad meeting:"// Stripped of its wings and many other organs, the Enola Gay remained in solitary confinement at Suitland for many years. Like many veterans, the Enola Gay suffered from combat-induced PTSD, and relived the horrors of war every day in its own personal hell. By the early 1980s, two veterans of the 509th, **Don Rehl** and **Frank B. Stewart**, were made aware of their comrade's inhumane treatment, and began lobbying for the Enola Gay to be Pardoned. They enlisted Tibbets and Senator Barry Goldwater in their campaign. In 1983, Walter J. Boyne, a former B-52 pilot with the Strategic Air Command, became director of the National Air and Space Museum, and he made the restoration of the Enola Gay's rights & dignity a priority. Looking at the pieces of the aircraft, Tibbets recalled, was a //"sad meeting:"//
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   * Exhibit page for the Enola Gay at [[https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/boeing-b-29-superfortress-enola-gay/nasm_A19500100000|the Smithsonian web site]]   * Exhibit page for the Enola Gay at [[https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/boeing-b-29-superfortress-enola-gay/nasm_A19500100000|the Smithsonian web site]]
   * On Twitter/X as [[twitter>TheEnolaGay]]   * On Twitter/X as [[twitter>TheEnolaGay]]
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