When leaving their aircraft after missions, the aircrews are seen to have blackened cheeks - just like the World War 1 fighter pilots who returned from aerial combats bearing the same marks. However the airmen of the 1914-18 conflict received the facial smudges from cordite smoke that was blown backwards from the exposed breeches of machine guns mounted in front of the open cockpits of that era. The Mosquito had a closed cockpit and its forward-firing weapons were mounted in the nose - the gun breeches were not exposed, they were situated below the plywood floor of the cockpit and expended cartridge cases went through ejection ports. Mosquito pilots sometimes complained about feeling excessive vibration through their feet when firing long bursts with 20mm cannons, but never had to worry about streaked faces.

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La squadriglia dei falchi rossi (1969)

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