Warbird Information Exchange

Hi all

I remember reading somewhere of a Vietnam bombing mission, carried by the US Navy if I'm not mistaken, where a latrine was droped in the VC. Does anyone has any links to this (or can tell me if it's urban legend)?

many thanks,

rr

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rreis

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It was a toilet, hung on a bomb rack on an A-1 on the Midway. I had a friend who was on the Midway who heard the story, even though it happened several years prior to his time on the ship.

http://www.midwaysailor.com/midwayva25bomb/

thx! that was it!

rr, merry as a cuco

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rreis

If you want pictures, see rreis@flickr

Many aircraft profiles and I believe the model kit forget to add the bomb tail to the toilet!

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Magister Aviation
It's all in my book

I've seen photos of a mocked up kitchen sink mounted on a hard point on a SPAD, and read accounts of a 5 Lb. blue brick practice bomb being dropped on a mission just because the air boss got tired of seeing the thing rattling around the deck, they speculated some NVA guy spent a lot of time trying to firure out how to disarm it-

Didn't some one who posts here have the potty bomb as an avatar?

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Don't make me go get my flying monkeys-

Tamiya put out a 1/48 model of the "Paper Tiger 2" including the commode.

Just google "tamiya paper tiger 2.
There are some great builds of it .

http://inscale.org/pub/index.php?topic=1033.0

The pilot CDR Stoddard was killed in the same plane later in the war (Oct 66)

Didn't the box top state the kit had a 'special weapon'?

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Don't make me go get my flying monkeys-

I guess you could say they bombed the cr8p out of the NVA!

more like a "dirty bomb" or biological weapon!!

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

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Had God intended for man to fly behind inline engines, Pratt & Whitney would have made them.

CB

http://www.angelfire.com/dc/jinxx1/Desrt_Wings.html

i recall reading that the navy brass disciplined the squadron & it's c.o. for the prank....... party poopers

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!