You’d think it would cure everybody of ever starting a war again, but it hasn’t.' - Rose Marie Murphy Christensen, Columbus Grade school student. It was a terrible, terrible thing, and it’s too bad, but there were a lot of people who got killed in that war. They started it and they had their chance, and even after we dropped the first one, they didn’t give up, so we had todrop the second one. Visit the Smithsonian website on the Enola Gay. The debate over how the war was won has continued. Udvar-Hazy Center outside Dulles Airport in northern Virginia. Now, the entire restored plane is displayed at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. But there was so much disagreement over the plane’s mission that the exhibit was closed. The Enola Gay was restored and parts of the plane were put on exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum between 19. It made its final flight on December 2, 1953, when it was flown to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. flew the plane to Park Ridge, Illinois, a storage site for the Smithsonian Institution. After her mission, the Enola Gay was returned to the United States in 1946 and stored in Arizona for several years.