Critics unloaded on new Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth after a new report Thursday night that references to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient and even the Enola Gay — the plane that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan — were among tens of thousands of materials designated for deletion by the Departme...
They’re also deleting any photos or records of any black or female service members they deleted mentions of the Tuskeegee Airmen. They are just removing any records of black folks in the military ever, and archivist have already said their methods are 100% destructive, they are only retaining screen caps of much of this information, so it’s never going to be restored, just a very low res copy of often a single image out of entire galleries. They’re getting shit for deleting Enola Gay records, fucking NOTHING about how they’re deleting every fucking record of black service members. Sickening shit.
I guess maybe no-one’s surprised they’re erasing women and people of color, but people are surprised they’re deleting Enola Gay. Still sickening, though, as you say.
It’s fucking ridiculous. In this case it wasn’t even a description, it was someone’s name.