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During the Vietnam War in November of 1965, Vietnamese villagers came across a small crater with a strange object that fell from the sky while making an unrecognizable sound. Fearing that the device could explode, they approached it carefully. But as they wiped away the dirt, they could hardly believe what they saw...
After surviving a bombardment from American forces, the Vietnamese locals were surprised to notice that a peculiar device had hit the ground without detonating, and it didn’t look like an explosive.
As they closed in on the crater, they were surprised by what they saw: a white porcelain toilet bowl with tail fins, a nose like a bomb, and an American Air Force logo as if it were just another piece of artillery.
The fake munition was dropped from a US Air Force VA-25 A-1H Skyraider flown by Commander C. W. "Bill" Stoddard while on a Dixie Station strike mission to the Mekong Delta.
The toilet had been hidden from base commanders under a secret codename. Only a few officers knew that Stoddard's crew was carrying a unique object to commemorate the six millionth pound of ordnance dropped.
One of the squadron captains had saved the damaged toilet from being thrown overboard off their aircraft carrier base in the South China Sea. The crew decided to disguise it like a bomb and instill some terror into the enemy. The antic drew a lot of jokes from air intelligence about germ warfare.
As Stoddard's Skyraider took off from the runway before the mission, Bridge control said over the communication lines (QUOTE): "What the hell was on 572's right wing?"
The entire mission was captured with a camera mounted to the wing of the A-1H, which was renamed the "Paper Tiger II" for the flight.
Stoddard's wingman, Lieutenant Commander Robin Bacon, was almost struck by the flush toilet when it was dropped. The distinctive delivery ordnance whistled all the way down until it hit the ground.
But before Stoddard had dropped the payload, he read the list of weapons that the aircraft carried to Forward Air Control. As he got to the last line, Stoppard said (QUOTE): "And one codenamed Operation Sani-Flush."
During the Vietnam War in November of 1965, Vietnamese villagers came across a small crater with a strange object that fell from the sky while making an unrecognizable sound. Fearing that the device could explode, they approached it carefully. But as they wiped away the dirt, they could hardly believe what they saw...
After surviving a bombardment from American forces, the Vietnamese locals were surprised to notice that a peculiar device had hit the ground without detonating, and it didn’t look like an explosive.
As they closed in on the crater, they were surprised by what they saw: a white porcelain toilet bowl with tail fins, a nose like a bomb, and an American Air Force logo as if it were just another piece of artillery.
The fake munition was dropped from a US Air Force VA-25 A-1H Skyraider flown by Commander C. W. "Bill" Stoddard while on a Dixie Station strike mission to the Mekong Delta.
The toilet had been hidden from base commanders under a secret codename. Only a few officers knew that Stoddard's crew was carrying a unique object to commemorate the six millionth pound of ordnance dropped.
One of the squadron captains had saved the damaged toilet from being thrown overboard off their aircraft carrier base in the South China Sea. The crew decided to disguise it like a bomb and instill some terror into the enemy. The antic drew a lot of jokes from air intelligence about germ warfare.
As Stoddard's Skyraider took off from the runway before the mission, Bridge control said over the communication lines (QUOTE): "What the hell was on 572's right wing?"
The entire mission was captured with a camera mounted to the wing of the A-1H, which was renamed the "Paper Tiger II" for the flight.
Stoddard's wingman, Lieutenant Commander Robin Bacon, was almost struck by the flush toilet when it was dropped. The distinctive delivery ordnance whistled all the way down until it hit the ground.
But before Stoddard had dropped the payload, he read the list of weapons that the aircraft carried to Forward Air Control. As he got to the last line, Stoppard said (QUOTE): "And one codenamed Operation Sani-Flush."
