Warbird Information Exchange

In response to the Spad dropping the toilet thread. Here 's a great shot of
Capt Mort Mortinson CO of the 500th BS and his crew with a kitchen sink signed by member of their squadron.
The sink was dropped with a few 500 LBers on a Japanese freighter.

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Great photo Jack. Always look forward to a peek into your collection!

I spoke to an Aussie B-24 nose turret gunner who flew with the 380th BG before joining 23 Sqn yesterday. His crew used to throw empty beer bottles out with the bombs.

Cheers

Andy

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Lynn: Does the lawn chair out of the bomb bay of the A-20 count as unusual ordinance?

i mentioned this in a thread sometime ago....... a good customer of mine was a b-25 pilot in the pacific. he was tapped to transport a few japanese p.o.w.s for further interrogation, they were being held in the bomb bay while flying to the destination. enroute the prisoners went bananas, & were suicidal. the b-25 crew panicked, & jettisoned the japanese over the pacific. the pilot said he received a royal ass chewing & was near court martialed. i don't know if he was telling the truth or b.s.'ing, but he had nothing to prove to me, & he had some fabulous credentials.

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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!!

Chairs, maybe, tools & tool box, yes......


Lynn

I was running the flightline that day at NAS New Orleans. We had a problem with the schedule & had to launch the medium bombers for their fly-bys early. "Uncle Grumpy" Max Gardner was bitchin as usual & he just threw his chair up in the airplane, & off he went. I bout laughed my ass off when he came by for his pass & out of the A-20 comes this chair. I think that was the funniest thing I ever saw at an air show. Well as I remember he figured some way that it was my fault, but thats ok. God rest his soul, Max was real charcter.
Robbie

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Yeah Grumpy was a real character, who probably had the most appropriate nick name of anybody I ever met. I was running the ramp at a show for Brooks AFB staging out of Stinson Field and Grumpy fell off the wing of the A-20. Somehow it became my fault and I have never seen a man so irrate. I guess I jumped up there and pushed him off in a rage of madness. Sure miss that plane and guy.

Grumpy dropped his wooden director's chair and luggage at Hondo, Tx during a show in about 1984. We gave him a plac with wood from the chair. I don't think he accepted it. Then there's always "Snackbar" dropping a full water bed from a TBM. (Don't try this at home, it takes a professional).

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I remember the first show we took the B-25 to. We had a bunch of 100LBers in the bombbay but I neglected to safety wire them to the ranks and we scattered them in front of the crowd has we taxied in! OOPs!

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I have heard from aviators first hand that some squardron mascot's (donkies, mules and such) after the squad moved to cooler climates the animal get sick and died were delivered over enemy terrority in the same fashion as this sink.

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