Are these facts true??????

[Mad_Dog]

And yet another one:

6) Partial true.
It's true that tracer bullet has different aerodinamics, weight and penetration ability (tracer won't penetrate even regular helmet from 200m) but not that much to make 80% missing during shooting. During WWII average distance of air conbat was 200-400 meters (often closer but rare farther) so ballictics difference doesn't afeect much in this distances. So 20% accuracy was not the result of tracer ballistic but the result of WWII air combat's nature itself. It's quite hard to hit anything moving at 400 km/h 200 meters from you while you're moving at 400 km/h yourself.

I've never heard about the different ballistics, but I've read (in Fork-tailed Devils by Martin Caidin, an excellent book) that once a P-38 squadron in the Pacific stopped using tracers, their success rate shot up because they were often able to get a second shot off if the first one missed. The Japanese pilots were unaware because there was no tracer flying past them.