Yup, only saw german planes with that. As far as tracers are concerned, it's true that they work both ways, but as I've read many times, it was a real plus to have tracers for inexperimented pilots, so they could see where they were shooting. And you may also consider that the normal belting on a .50 is 4 API rounds, then a tracer one, and so on

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