Curator says showing damage of A-bomb with B-29 bomber 'challenging'

Curator says showing damage of A-bomb with B-29 bomber 'challenging'

WASHINGTON, United States - Dik Daso, curator for modern military aircraft, is interviewed in late April at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, with the restored Enola Gay B-29 bomber which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945 being exhibited on his back.

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