"The Bunny Flag"

In the summer of 1963, the aircraft carrier USS Wasp cruised the Caribbean sporting the infamous Playboy “Bunny” Flag flying from the mast. The flag had been kidnapped from the New Orleans Playboy Club during a port visit on June 13^th of that year by the Wasp’s Mardet.

 

Flying beside the pennant of Rear Admiral Riera, Commander Carrier Division 14. The “Bunny” flag had boosted morale and was to become a permanent part of the Wasp’s halyards. However, the crew of the Wasp held the flag for ransom and would only surrender it to a “full-fledged Playboy Bunny” upon its arrival in her homeport of Boston, Ma.

 

Sources say once the ship arrived in homeport a “Bunny” was waiting at the pier upon her arrival to retrieve the flag…