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4/16/1994. "Tiger Team" appointed by Harwit April 16 begins its evaluation and will finish May 25.

Harwit acknowledges the accuracy of AFA criticism in a memo to his staff: "we do have a lack of balance and much of the criticism that has been levied against us is understandable." [https://web.archive.org/web/20130511232548/http://www.afa.org/media/enolagay/04-16-94.html]

NASM curator Michael Neufeld's memo to Harwit and the Tiger Team clearly spells out four reasons why historical research shows that "the traditional justification" for the decision to drop the bomb "is no longer tenable" : "All of this is not to say that the exhibit should take any position on these controversies -- indeed it does not. But it is clearly in the Smithsonian's charge, 'the increase and diffusion of knowledge,' to make this scholarly research accessible to the public." [PDF]

Tiger Team charge and final report. Making a "conscientious effort to add objectivity, accuracy and balance," the Tiger Team reviews and makes recommendations for each unit. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070630233018/http://www.afa.org/media/enolagay/05-00.html]

4/19/1994. Military historians Richard P. Hallion, Harold W. Nelson, Herman Wolk, and Edward Drea provide detailed analyses opposing the exhibit. Hallion, for instance, calls the latest revisions a "cosmetic patch," and Wolk says "the Enola Gay is basically a prop" in an exhibit focusing on Ground Zero.

Drea: [PDF]

Hallion, Nelson, Wolk: [PDF]

4/20/1994. See sample responses over the next few months from Harwit and curators Michael Neufeld and Tom Crouch to protest letters received by the NASM. Neufeld, for instance affirms that there will be a balanced presentation of controversial matters so that visitors can draw their own conclusions: "Since these matters are controversial, we can only give a balanced presentation of the evidence based on the latest scholarship and allow visitors to draw their own conclusions."

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