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German KC 250, need some help

Hello from Germany.

Sometime ago I became an old German bomb case. I attached some pictures.
On the top its stamped with KC 250 W. Now I found out that KC stands for chemical bombs but I dont know what the "W" means.
On some sites stand that this was filled whis phosgene, on others stands mustard gas.
If it helps, it looks that there are rests of two white rings. One pair one the top and another in the middle of the case.

I would like to restore it so another question about the color. I read that all bombs after 1942 are painted with RAL 7027 "Grngrau". Looks a bit like an sand yellow. Is that correct?
And than I need the font and size for the lettering.

Hope you can help me.
 

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For what it's worth the 70,000 250KC bombs, we (the British) liberated and brought back to the UK at war's end, were filled GA - Tabun.

TimG
 
Hello,

Maybe "W" stands for Weiss.
German made a Kc250Ws with one white ring filled with lachrymatory agent (chloroacetophenone).

Regards
 
For what it's worth the 70,000 250KC bombs, we (the British) liberated and brought back to the UK at war's end, were filled GA - Tabun.

TimG

And these bombs currently reside 120 miles north-west of Ireland in about 6000 feet of water!
 
Why would the Irish do that? Silly of them.
 
Hi,
I found this line drawing of a KC 250 in the book 'German Airdropped Weapons to 1945' by Wolfgang Fleischer. There are no details relating to the drawing as such, it just says the markings differ from the drawing when filled with Tabun.
There is also reference to chemical bomb markings toward the back of the book, but I cant find any relating to the white bands.

regards Kev

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Kev, I have the same book so I know this drawing.

Pete, thaks for that! This is nice!
I only have this one on my pictures.

Another question... does anyone have measures from an tail? I possibly want want to build one to complete the case.
 
Why would the Irish do that? Silly of them.
The irish did not dump them there, but as Tim explained, these were bombs liberated by the allies and then brought to England, where later on they were not wanted any more. All around germany the seas are infested with huge amounts of munitions which were dumped there by the allies at the end of WW2. Disposal of sea dumped munitions is extremely expensive and nobody wants to pay for that. It's the same all around the globe. Nobody feels responsible.
 
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