Everything *and* the Kitchen Sink

US Navy Douglas AD-4 Skyraider of Attack Squadron 195 (VA-195) "Dambusters" is seen loaded a special ordnance aboard the aircraft carrier USS Princeton (CVA-37) in August 1952. VA-195 was assigned to Carrier Air Group 19 (CVG-19) for a deployment to the Korean War from March 21st to November 3rd 1952. 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. The commanding Admiral was apparently not pleased by this and would not allow the bomb to be dropped for a week. Press coverage in the United States did however put some pressure and the bomb was eventually dropped on Pyongyang by Lt.(jg) Carl B. Austin in August 1952.

Interestingly the bomb to which the sink is strapped to does not appear to be fuzed in the footage.