Dayton International Airport: Re-enactment

Brenda Kerfoot Dept: Dayton Air Show spokeswoman Brenda Kerfoot said the June 22-23 event at Dayton International Airport will keep a planned "Great Wall of Fire" pyrotechnic show but not as an event meant to re-enact the Aug. 6, 1945, bombing of Hiroshima. The B-29 plane "Fifi," similar to the Enola Gay B-29 bomber used to attack Japan, will remain in the show but in a separate role, according to Montreal Gazette. "We've taken it as more of an educational show," Kerfoot said. "The wording that we used probably wasn't the best." CINCINNATI - A popular air show has cancelled plans to stage a re-enactment of the devastating World War II atomic bomb attack on Japan after protests, officials said Thursday. Air show officials said the re-enactment was meant to highlight a historic event that helped end the war and save lives that would have been lost if the war had been prolonged. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.