Cartridge ejection on a Mosquito

Great illustration Glicol, I like the cartridges and the gun smoke.

Just two things I would mention:

If the event took place in January ’44, the top wing roundels would have been of the earlier red/blue B type. The type with the white ring was introduced on upper wings in January 1945.

Secondly, I wonder what colours the tracer should be? I am no expert on ammunition, but I think a lot of RAF night tracer was green?? Just a thought.

Thanks Guys,

I wanted to be sure of the accuracy of the illustration of my next article in the French magazine “Fanatique de l’aviation”;

I will be telling the story of a 23 squadron Mosquito that shot down a KG 76 JU88 in Toulouse, shorty before its landing, on 6 Jan. 1944.

We managed to find the remains of the JU88 in the earth and we could interview the Mosquito Pilot (94 year old) shortly before he passed away, this was 4 years ago. This war event will be the subject of the article;

So the question was : should we show the cartridges ejected by the Mosquito (on the drawing: see here under) ?

and thanks to your answers, the answer is “yes”

All best

GC

Or, as there’s hardly any airframe below the breeches – none in fact, it’s the front half of the bomb doors – there’s nowhere to put them.

The most logical reason would be the extra space required for the 20mm brass.

Moggy

Why were the .303s collected but not the 20mm?

Yas as Bruce said. Underneath was a circular metal access panel under the nose (just behind the cap) about the size to fit your hand in and scoop them all out through the hole on return.

Yes – 20 mm fell to earth. 303 collected underneath the guns.

Believe that the 20mm cases were ejected from ports just forward of the bomb bay. 0.303 not ejected?