Japanese MG tracers (Infantry and Tank)

When I was reading a memoir (With The Old Breed) of a soldier (Eugene Sledge) recounting Japanese machinegun fire, I couldn’t help but notice this one statement:

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If the Japanese were using a bluish-white tracer in WW2, then why are they using a green tracer in Enlisted?

Give the Japanese their bluish-white tracer, please; that is all.

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Because DF is a lazy guy

Perhaps, but I doubt they even know about this stuff because it isn’t in their Russian Wikipedia articles. I personally believe that memoirs would be more reliable than Wikipedia in terms of what actually happened, after all, the people writing the memoirs were there.

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