Friday 2009-11-20 Screenshots Update discussion thread

[Zorin]

Originally Posted by JVM

They were High Explosive bombs. They kept this color until the US-made HE bombs also changed color toward olive Drab (presumably somewhere in 1942).

Practice british bombs were white.

you may find interesting info in this page:

http://www.hnsa.org/doc/britord/bomb/cat-0004.htm

and subsequent pages...

JVM

Beat me to it

Learned about that when I made the update for the British Ordnance in IL-2 and used the same source.

That one will answer all your questions Oleg.