You wont find this picture of the Enola Gay in its old place on anAir Force website anymore.
The B-29 Superfortress is an important part of American history.
The aircraft carried the nuclear weapons that the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The Enola Gay.© Pentagon photo.
This picture of the Enola Gay isnt the only image to vanish from Pentagon archives in recent weeks.
The photo purge is the result of Donald Trumpsexecutive orderordering the end of radical and wasteful government DEI programs.
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The purge has been slipshod and imprecise.
© Air Force photo.
This specific picture of the bomber is still present inanother Pentagon database.
Yet other innocuous photos of the Enola Gayhavebeen removed.
A 15-year-old article on the Air Force website about an all-female crew of AF support staffis gone.
© Pentagon photo.
A lecture from a Tuskegee Airman about integration is gone.
Photos of a multicultural celebration at a Marine Corps base are gone.
The disappeared content is overwhelmingly stuff that featured women and non-white service members.
The APs databaseis searchableand includes the URLs, keywords, and titles the original photos were uploaded under.
A content refresh means a change of messaging.
Hegseth has made much of the idea that the U.S. military needs to focus on lethality only.
For him, the Pentagon is a group of killers meant only to destroy things.
Under his leadership, the DoD has emphasized that idea in its public communications.
When a R-9X strikes, it doesnt explode.
Instead, six blades pop out of it to cut up its target.
Other military accounts reposted the video and added pithy bits of glee.
The Pentagon has worked hard to shift that perception.
Trump and Hegseth have decided thats all the Pentagon is and all it can ever be.
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