However, the Japanese government objected and the stamp was cancelled. In 1995, the 50th anniversary of the defeat of Japan, the United States Postal Service was preparing to release a commemorative stamp.
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JAPAN ENOLA GAY EXHIBIT SERIES
The fifth series is the Philately Series containing one folder of six sheets of unofficial stamps. The fourth series is the Media Series consisting of two cassette tapes from a 1995 session on "Presenting History: Museums in a Democratic Society." The first tape on side one has the "The Enola Gay Exhibit: A Case Study in Controversy" recorded on it. The last two folders in the subseries contain various support materials that do not quite fit into any other section and include proposals, quotes, testimony, high school essays, notes, and speeches mainly about the Enola Gay and the controversy. Army Command and General Staff College, and was in the forefront against the revisionist history template.
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Also in this subseries is a folder containing papers written by Dennis Giangreco, who was a publications editor at the Military Review at the U.S. The Enola Gay Restoration Committee folder contains documents relating to the short lived organization, including correspondence, meeting minutes, blank stationery, membership cards, membership applications, and a proposal to the National Air and Space Museum for cooperative effort in 1988. contains a print out of a website with bibliographic information about the Enola Gay controversy.
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contains news clippings concerning the Enola Gay that appeared in a variety of news sources between 1942-1998. These bound journals include correspondence, news articles, scripts, lists of television and radio coverage, and other diverse materials. Four bound groups of materials concerning the Enola Gay debate with the Smithsonian. from spring 1992, the Air Force Magazine, Journal of American History, and The New Criterion. contains a variety of bound materials, including magazines such as the Friends Journal, which includes an explanatory note from Rooney with the quarterly journal produced by the Air Force Museum Foundation, Inc. The third series is the Publications series, which is further organized into four subseries: 1. All are concerned with the Enola Gay and the effort that was being undertaken to have her displayed proudly at the Smithsonian Institution. contains assorted letters neither addressed to Rooney nor sent by him. This subseries also contains the primary letter to the Smithsonian Secretary Robert Adams that Rooney claimed sparked the initial debate concerning the aircraft in 1986. Rooney wrote to senators, authors, editors, and various friends and acquaintances in his efforts. The content is mostly about the proper restoration of the Enola Gay and encouraging others to assist with the movement. includes letters written from Rooney to others. Burr Bennet, Jr., Don Rehl, Frank Rabbitt, and J. Some of these letters are not addressed to him, but were forwarded to him after the fact. The majority of these letters are about the Enola Gay and the issues surrounding the Smithsonian exhibit. The correspondence ranges from before, during, and after the Enola Gay controversy. The second series is the Correspondence Series, which is further organized into three subseries: 1.
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Glines about shipping information and tracking numbers for packages containing his collection. Glines, concerning the explanatory notes that Rooney included throughout the collection. The second is a letter to former curator of the History of Aviation Collection (HAC) of The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), C. The first is an autobiography by Rooney, detailing his life with a heavy emphasis on his military career. From this initial arrangement, the archivist arranged the collection into six series with the first series being the Personal Series, which contains three items that were part of the accessioning process. The collection arrived in excellent condition and well organized by the donor/creator. Rooney Collection on the "Enola Gay" is housed in seven boxes of varying sizes totaling 3.35 linear ft. Rooney to document his participation in the campaign against the 50th anniversary Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM) exhibit on the Enola Gay. This collection contains an autobiography, correspondence, newspaper and magazine articles, bound articles, minutes, transcripts, personal notes, bibliographies, audio cassettes, stamps, memorabilia, essays, other materials that were created and/or collected by William A.