Enola Gay 
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
6/9/2021
The Fog of History Wars
by David W. Blight
Nations have histories, and someone must write and teach them, but the 1990s battle over the National Standards for History remains a warning to all those who try – setting a history curriculum is politics by other means, and the right has always been willing to fight over it.
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SOURCE: NYT
7-29-14
Theodore Van Kirk, 93, Enola Gay Navigator, Dies
Theodore (Dutch) Van Kirk took the plane’s bearings, using a hand-held sextant to guide with the stars.
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