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Identification of French WWI bomb

No - probably a 50kg GA - the different coloration of the front part of he bomb body seems to indicate a 2 parts construction which is incompatible with the simiolar sized (and more frequent by 1917) 50kg DT bomb but characteristic of the GA (Gros Andreau) anilite bombs (overall height 1200mm)
Here is a photograph of a 50kg GAMMN - a former 200mm 50kg GA bdy filled with MMN:

50kg GAMMN Screenshot 2025-09-18 083105.jpg

By 1917 most GA body bombs were indeed filled with MMN but and rear fuzed.

The picture seems to show a bomb with a GA activation key

Key 25kg GA Screenshot 2025-09-18 083409.jpg

So 50kg Gros Andreau ?


Colors - good question without a straight answer. While Yellow was already the color for high explosive French projectiles, most of ww1 bombs seems to have been left natural metal, with various levels of corrosion due to exposure to weather. On the other hand we know that form 1918 to the early 1930s some French bombs (if not all ) were painted in gray-green in accordance to a 1918 regulation.
 
But not a Voisin XIII which, like the Voisin XII, was a twin engined tractor bomber, much larger than the aircraft shown. This would appear to be a Voisin X, a pusher type. And quite a primitive design compared with the designs of other aircraft of the same period, designed in 1917 I believe.
 
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