Performance modifications done at Squadron level.

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Imagine this - what if there was no armor behind the pilot in this case...

You mean like this?

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It looks like the shell exploded just outside the skin? The small holes below the large hole appear to be bent in and a lot of the "marks" seem to be missing paint. Certainly does not mean that there no fragments that went inside the Fuselage.
A lot of battle damage depends on whose shell it was and exactly which type of shell.
The famous German 20mm Mine shell.
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Lots of HE, not a lot of metal, except for the fuse.
But at times only 40-50% of the ammo belt was filled with such rounds.
Since they could not put tracer into that shell body around 40% of the shells were these.
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HE content was about 25% of the mine shell and the heavy construction meant larger fragments but not a lot of them. The entire rear portion of shell that held the tracer element might come off in one piece.
The fuses were often brass.
There were also some AP shells with base fuses and there were some AP tracer. And that is just German 20mm MG 151 ammo. Other types of German ammo or British ammo or Japanese ammo?
 

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