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Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox
I have a question for British side.
There are yellow color painted bombs. It is training bombs or not?
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They were High Explosive bombs. They kept this color until the US-made HE bombs changed color from yellow toward olive Drab (in March 1942). The british HE bombs color was also changed for olive drab then.
Practice british bombs were white.
you may find interesting info in this page:
http://www.hnsa.org/doc/britord/bomb/cat-0004.htm
and
http://www.hnsa.org/doc/ordnance/index.htm
and subsequent pages...
JVM