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Funny photo: Vietnam "Toilet Bomb" compliments of VA-25


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I saw this today while doing some research. It is true as I found it on a ton of websites, 40x different photos and all.

 

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"According to Squadron Historian Holt Livesay, on 4 November on the last mission of the 1965 cruise, CDR Clarence W. Stoddard, Jr., Executive Officer of VA-25 "Fist of the Fleet", flying an A-1H Skyraider, NE/572 "Paper Tiger II" from Carrier Air Wing Two aboard USS Midway carried a special bomb to the North Vietnamese, It was to commemorate the 6-millionth pound of ordnance dropped. This bomb was unique because of the type... it was a toilet!"

 

 

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

 

http://www.eugeneleeslover.com/Humor/Toilet_bomb.html

 

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I'm going to start making replicas and selling them on ebay.... :)

Lol. I have one I can sell ya, has real good patina. And I can provide the provenance!
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Here is another shot of a similar strike. This one is from the Korean War (1952). VA-195 and the kitchen sink. This squadron blew up the Hwachon Dam with aerial torpedoes during the war.

 

Chris

 

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There's a story that came out of North Africa during WWII.

 

Supposedly the British built wooden decoy fighters and put them at the end of their airstrip, far from the camouflaged real aircraft.

 

The Germans came over, shot up the place, and dropped wooden bombs on the decoys.

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Many years ago, Hasegawa, a Japenese pastic model company, made a 1/72nd scale model kit of this very aircraft, complete with the toilet mounted on the bomb rack. I have been looking for this model kit for over 10 years to add to my collection...so far, no luck.

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There's a story that came out of North Africa during WWII.

 

Supposedly the British built wooden decoy fighters and put them at the end of their airstrip, far from the camouflaged real aircraft.

 

The Germans came over, shot up the place, and dropped wooden bombs on the decoys.

 

Gil, while researching the St. Margaret's windmill, i came across this local legend. This is right on the white cliffs of dover.

 

Local legend has it that a wooden dummy gun was placed on the cliff top, but it did not fool the Germans, who dropped a wooden dummy bomb! A more realistic live bomb hit the Parish Church and destroyed a window dedicated to John Knott, the lighthouse keeper of the nearby South Foreland Lighthouse.

The Lighthouse also goes down in history as the place where Marconi transmitted his first radio broadcast to France.

The beach at St Margaret's at Cliffe is famous for being the closest point to France, and is consequently where Channel swimmers begin their marathon 21-mile swim. The white chalk cliffs above the bay are said to be the first place the sun reaches each morning on mainland Britain.

 

http://www.aboutbritain.com/towns/st-margarets-at-cliffe.asp

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