INSIDE WASHINGTON: Archives’ record-keeping lapse (AP)

This image provided by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) shows a photocopy of a map created by the Army Air Corps to plan the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II, indicating Map of Target Area 90-30-748, Hiroshima Area, A-2 Section, XXI Bomber Command, June 1945.  This and many other historical items that the Archives once possessed are missing; some were stolen by researchers or rogue Archives employees - others simply disappeared without a trace.   (AP Photo/U.S National Archives Records Administration)AP – National Archives visitors know they’ll find the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights in the main building’s magnificent rotunda in Washington. But they won’t find the patent file for the Wright Brothers’ Flying Machine or the maps for the first atomic bomb missions anywhere in the Archives inventory.

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