Posted on 03/01/2015 7:35:48 PM PST by NowApproachingMidnight
In 1965, the aircraft carrier USS Midway was bombing Vietnam. VA-25, an attack aviation unit of the Navy, operated from the Midway. In October, one of the toilets on the ship cracked. The crew planned to dispose of it. Commander Bill Stoddard, the executive officer of VA-25, came up with a novel way to get rid of the toilet.
To celebrate the six millionth pound of ordnance dropped by his unit, Cdr. Stoddard had the toilet painted with the "Fist of the Fleet" emblem of his unit. It was then loaded onto his Skyraider. Cdr. Stoddard dropped it on a communist target in South Vietnam.
You can see more photos of the toilet bomb at Midway Sailor.
(Excerpt) Read more at neatorama.com ...
That was quite a meat truck. Maybe ISIS could use some hits from some old air tanks like that instead of f35s.
We were successful warriors because we were human, not regulated zomboids under ROE
Crappers awayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy...
I do not see any arming wires on the toilet though........
We in the AirCav were heavily regulated by the ROE in 70-71; airdrop leaflets 24 hours before engagement was the biggest morale crusher.
Stink bombs were impact armament :-)
I LOVE WW2 movies and the dialog written for the good ones .... we WERE smart asses ... and I loved it (when I was in ... 65-67)
That’s pretty much the A-10s role. Tough enough to survive getting shot up. Slow enough to loiter and kill them all.
I was just looking at the A10 vs f35 specs and cost. If you put modern engines on a new A10, it would kick F35 butt for a fraction of the cost.
Infantry worship the A-10 as a god. It is the best close air support aircraft ever invented.
As a result of the Sequester, Air Force brass is trying to kill the A-10 to free up money for the F-35. That will result in battlefield deaths of grunts.
You can join or follow the fight to save the A-10 at Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/savethea10/
A bomb in a bomb?
Talk about taking a dump...
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Sky raiders and their crews and pilots were one of a kind. By far my fav aircraft and mission.
Great story thanks for sharing
Thanks for posting an image that’s 2094 x 1617 pixels, far larger than most monitors.
That just may be the most famous picture of a Skyraider, ever!
I joined the Navy in 1963 specifically to fly the “Spad.”
Much to my regret, while I was in flight training, the Spad training squadron (VT-30) was decommissioned.
Now, if I had joined the USAF or the VNAF, I might have been able to fly them, but what did I know?
The Fickle Finger of Fate . . . .
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