"Kitchen Sink Bomb"

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Robbie Stuart
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"Kitchen Sink Bomb"

Tue Oct 20, 2009 9:42 am

Image US NAVY PHOTO

I heard of a "Toilet Bomb", but this one was news to me.....

A U.S. Navy Douglas AD-4 Skyraider of attack squadron VA-195 Dambusters with a special ordnance aboard the aircraft carrier USS Princeton (CVA-37) in August 1952.

:shock: :shock: :
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Re: "Kitchen Sink Bomb"

Tue Oct 20, 2009 10:07 am

Robbie Stuart wrote:Image US NAVY PHOTO

I heard of a "Toilet Bomb", but this one was news to me.....

A U.S. Navy Douglas AD-4 Skyraider of attack squadron VA-195 Dambusters with a special ordnance aboard the aircraft carrier USS Princeton (CVA-37) in August 1952.

:shock: :shock: :
Robbie

That must have been put there by the EPA to collect oil thrown out by the mighty 3350.
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Tue Oct 20, 2009 10:17 am

is that a photoshop job?
Robbie Stuart
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Tue Oct 20, 2009 10:38 am

Nathan wrote:is that a photoshop job?
The "special weapon" was a 454 kg (1000 lb) bomb with a kitchen sink attached. The idea came up, when the squadron's executive officer LCdr. M.K. Dennis remarked during a meeting with the press: "We dropped everything on them (the North Koreans) but a kitchen sink." Royal J. Deland, ADC, and J. Burnett, ADC, then produced a bomb with a kitchen sink attached. Obviously the commanding Admiral was not pleased by this and would not allow to drop the bomb for a week. However, press coverage in the United States obviously led to the dropping of this bomb in August 1952 on Pyongyang by Lt.(jg) Carl B. Austin.
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Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:52 pm

Nathan wrote:is that a photoshop job?

Why would it be?
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Tue Oct 20, 2009 7:02 pm

Somewhere in my "collection of Stuff" I have a photo from some B-25 news of the crew loading a kitchen sink for a mission. I should look for it this weekend
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