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Fusse2004

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Who knows this bomb? Am grateful for any info.
 

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Without dimensions, is VERY similar to the French :

"Bombe clairante Mle 1930 de l'aronavale franaise".

Fuze is "fuse temps 24/31 Mle 1930 pour bombe clairante".

With thanks to H. BELOT for his documentation !




Yoda
 

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Yes France, here the ones in our collection.
 

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Hello,

I think it's the early version (before Mle 1930 shown by Yoda) of the French bomb Flare Michelin (VM series). Era WW1 and 20's.
The bomb is fitted with a special time fuze (see picture).

French bomb flare Michelin.jpg

French time fuze bomb VM.jpg




At the end of WW1 US made a bomb like this one (Flare Mark 1) :

BOMBES US.jpgFlare.jpgflare 2.jpgFlare 3.jpgFlare 4.jpgFlare MK1.jpgFlare US DOC1.jpgFLARE US DOC2.jpgFlare US DOC3.jpgFlare US DOC4.jpg


Blu97 : very strange, white marking "Lichtkogel" is not really French !
 
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Hi minenaz 16 we got these bombs from the army museum and everything we got from them they have painted on the nomenclature in Dutch what is is.
 
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