What Color were US bombs in WW2?

[D.B. Andrus]

I always believed that the drop tanks were not pressed sheet metal but made of paper (sort of cardboard-to-papier mache) and then sprayed aluminium. Two guys sitting on them seems to have splashed that theory!

 

Tony T

 

Tony

 

Here is the pressed paper type:

 

 

Cheers,

 

Damian

[stikpusher]

For a little added variety, paint the fin assembly in a different shade of OD from the bomb body. They were stored separately and not attached until shortly before being brought to the aircraft for the mission.

 

 

 

Early in WWII, USN bombs were seen in Light Gray

[Bill Cross]

What color ocher or yellow are the fins/stripes?

[stikpusher]

That yellow looks way to vivid to be Yellow Zinc Chromate primer. A SWAG says that the Yellow should be (not is) standard Army Insignia Yellow. If you have access to Dana Bell's Air Force Colors series of books, Volume 1 and 2 list all the colors officially used by the AAC/AAF. There was not much variation there as there was with some colors.