help locating photo: Vietnam, latrine bombing

[rreis]

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

[gemmer]

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

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/

[rreis]

thx! that was it!

rr, merry as a cuco

[Fouga23]

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

[The Inspector]

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?

[oscardeuce]

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)

[The Inspector]

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

[maxum96]

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

[tom d. friedman]

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

[Clifford Bossie]

[tom d. friedman]

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