[nickcarraway]

And maybe those reporters do think it’s about wildlife?

[niteowl77]

For possible interest of anyone who has seen the 1962 movie/musical The Music Man, the leading man (Robert Preston) was a G2 (intelligence officer) with a 9th AF medium bomber outfit in WWII. Many years ago, an aviation magazine ran a short article by a pilot in Capt. Meservey's unit (his pre-Hollywood name was Robert Preston Meservey).

There were apparently standing orders to use up any unused munitions on targets of opportunity during the flights home. On return from one mission, the crew targeted a dilapidated and likely abandoned outhouse sitting in a large open area. The "target" was completely destroyed. At the debriefing, Preston found a deal of humor in the whole thing, and pronounced the pilot to be "the scourge of Hitler's outhouses."

After that incident, he always addressed that pilot as "The Scourge."

Now you know.