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Answering Nature's Call during Battle: Cod’s Urine Relief Tube
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<blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 4110004" data-attributes="member: 26737"><p>In Martin Caidin's book <em>Flying Forts</em>, he reported that the British had problems with the early B-17's bomb bay doors not opening over the target. They'd work fine on the ground before and after the missions, and they were having a hell of a time figuring out what was going wrong until the Americans sent an engineer on a flight with them.</p><p></p><p>It turns out that the British crewmen were relieving themselves into the bomb bay as the bomber was climbing, and the urine was freezing at altitude, which was just enough to freeze the bomb bay doors closed. Once they broke them of that habit, the problem disappeared.</p><p></p><p>A friend of mine knew a B-17 navigator, and he said the guy told him that they would pee into plastic bottles. When they got to altitude, the urine would freeze solid and they'd toss the bottles overboard over Germany. He said he always wondered if those "p*ss bombs" melted before impact and if they ever hit anyone.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SoonerP226, post: 4110004, member: 26737"] In Martin Caidin's book [I]Flying Forts[/I], he reported that the British had problems with the early B-17's bomb bay doors not opening over the target. They'd work fine on the ground before and after the missions, and they were having a hell of a time figuring out what was going wrong until the Americans sent an engineer on a flight with them. It turns out that the British crewmen were relieving themselves into the bomb bay as the bomber was climbing, and the urine was freezing at altitude, which was just enough to freeze the bomb bay doors closed. Once they broke them of that habit, the problem disappeared. A friend of mine knew a B-17 navigator, and he said the guy told him that they would pee into plastic bottles. When they got to altitude, the urine would freeze solid and they'd toss the bottles overboard over Germany. He said he always wondered if those "p*ss bombs" melted before impact and if they ever hit anyone. [/QUOTE]
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