Capital Ship bomb utilized Mizsnay-Schardin effect which is now days called EFP or explosive formed penetrator. It was supposed to penetrate capital ships decks by projecting steel plate trough tick armor.
I have been doing research on Wellington load an foun that it has to do with bomb bay design. On Wellington Mk.X bomb bay was either a single space or divided in two sections. Divided bomb bay could receive GP or MC 1000 bomb in combination with 250pounders, while it was considered that...
While researching squadron records on bombing in Bosnia and Herzegovina I noticed that Wellingtons of No.205 Group were not carrying 1000 lbs bombs while on regular bases were carrying 4000 lbs bombs, and 250 and 500 pounders also. Does anyone have plausible explanation for that? Were...
15AF crews had exact orders not to jettison over land in Yugoslavia and Albania but exclusively in Adriatic. Although I managed to locate three jettisoning sites and find one jettisoned bomb in central part of Yugoslavia.
US strategic bombers in Europe (8th and 15th AF) during WW2 had to follow bombing policy of satellite and occupied states which was more or less adopted from the similar British document. Aim of that policy was lowering number of collateral victims in occupied countries by allowing only visual...
Here is a UK bomb pub...
http://www.lexpev.nl/downloads/britishexplosiveordnance1946.pdf
If you can get a book on Brit bombs by Peter Voss you might find pretty detailed drawings in color in it.