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don't know for sure with the Brits, but I do know some Germans painted
a small roundel beside the bullet hole of the country that put it there.
Was that what the photo caption stated or your own assessment because I can tell you many times straight punctures into aluminum will not necessarily reveal what type of round was fire through it. I've seen .22 rounds that caught structure in such a way you have thought a 40mm cannon was fired at it.yep. that was a cannon hit (you can see the depression in the middle of it)
on a RAF P-40.
Was that what the photo caption stated or your own assessment because I can tell you many times straight punctures into aluminum will not necessarily reveal what type of round was fire through it. I've seen .22 rounds that caught structure in such a way you have thought a 40mm cannon was fired at it.
heres a fabric dope patch over aluminum skin.. circa 1942ish.
I read somewhere that Wildcats of Cactus AF was doing the same thing. Or I saw photo?
it stated in the book:
"repaired cannon fire damage from a Bf 109F who was engaged in a dogfight
with Sgt 'Eddie' Edwards near Gasr el Arid, Libya."
there's also a bunch of pics with German 12.7mm(?) mg hits that look like the
typical bullet holes one would see. theres also another pic of a flak hit where
it ripped a good size hole right behind the cockpit breaking the spine of the
P-40.. the pilot could almost crawl inside it. it did land safely however.