Detected big bomb

[ille27]

Hello bombfriends..

in the early 90s (Januar 1992) a friend of mine detected a big bomb close to a forest trail. He made a photo, that time no digital cam was available...
Today I found a paper print this friend gave me in my old shoe box. I tried to make a snapshot of this, please excuse the bad quality.
No idea, if that bomb still is on the place, I haven't been there and I got no information about the place except it was in a forest around 50ks from home.
my friend meanwhile doesn't live anymore in Germany and he woun't come here to locate the place again (even it would be hard to find a place after 20 years...) All I can do is to write him to get a roughly description of the find spot.
I got only this description: dark green colour, stenciled letters: FIN ASSEMB....
The fir cone might give an idea of size, this cones got a length about 15cm in our area. My friend didn't dig out more than on the photo visible.

My idea: experts of yours can say what nation/type/size this bomb was?
Thanks for response!
ille

 

[ille27]

Yesterday eve I phoned with my friend who said the bomb was also located by a lumberjack about 8 years ago. They called the pyrotechnican, but didn't get information about the type of the bomb because all civilists were send away durig the excavation. And German eod are a little untalkative.....
Perhaps some of you know about the bomb by the Letters on it?

 

[Chris]

As you say bad quality but I think American by the look at the photo.
can have good look tomorrow at work.

Regards,

Chris

 

[ille27]

Thank you Chris,
it would be great to get photos of comparable ones.

 

[ogreve]

Hi,

There's not much that I can contribute, other than that some American GAU-8 casings with dummy APFSDS projectiles have markings "INERT FLIGHT ASSY". I'm quite sure the markings on this bomb read "FIN ASSEMBLY". I'd also look in the direction of an American bomb.

Cheers,
Olafo