The onlookers were not rushing to loot, which tells us something.
A slight tangent, the drop reminds me of the official issue red [warm front] blue [cold ditto] and purple [occlusion] crayons at RAF Guetersloh c. 1970.
Without exception, they were broken internally, ie just when you thought the lead in your pencil was kosher, a little bit dropped out.
Point of story is that they were alleged to have been air-dropped many years earlier, probably at Arnhem.