During the Vietnam War, American pilots carried out a ground attack with a toilet. U.S. Navy Air Forces VA-25 Squadron took off daily from the USS Midway from April 1965 for combat missions, and by November 4, 1965, they had dropped 6 million pounds (2,721 tons) of ammunition, and the pilots decided to commemorate the event.
Ground crews located a toilet that had been torn apart due to damage from the warehouse and prepared to hang it on a Douglas A-1 Sky Raider aircraft numbered 572. The ordnance division equipped the toilet with a frame so that it could be mounted on the aircraft pylon, and they also loaded the toilet with a tail that had been removed from the aerial bomb.
As it flew over targets in the Mekong Delta region, the attack pilot, Clarence M. J. Stoddard read to the commander a list of ammunition, including "special items". The toilet was then successfully thrown from the swooping plane, which made an unusual whistling sound as it fell. The toilet that fell from the sky did not cause much damage to North Vietnam, but the mischievous pilot Stoddard was shot down a year later and disappeared, and in 1973 he was declared dead!
