Word: superfortress
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...conflict. After months of heated debate, officials of Washington's Smithsonian Institution last week withdrew plans to display artifacts and photos of the devastation caused by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Instead visitors will see the fuselage of the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress plane that flew the Hiroshima mission, and a videotape of its crew. While Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama called the decision ``regrettable,'' Hiroshima survivor Koshiro Kondo was more emphatic: ``We had hoped that the feelings of the people of Hiroshima might have gotten through to the American people...