# Fury (the movie): Colour of tracers (don't worry - no spoilers in OP) **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 8, 2014, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fury-the-movie-colour-of-tracers-dont-worry-no-spoilers-in-op/706671 "2014-12-08T17:07:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2014, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fury-the-movie-colour-of-tracers-dont-worry-no-spoilers-in-op/706671/1 "2014-12-08T17:07:25Z")
I saw Fury last night and have a question about the tracer rounds seen frequently during the movie. A lot of the tracer fire in Fury was green. I had not seen that before (at least in depictions of WWII-era battles). [Here is the international trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1xli7OTE_0). If you go to 1’36" and soon after at 1’47", you’ll see green tracers streaking through the battlefield. Is that accurate? Were WWII-eraa tracers ever green? (I think they were German, but could have been American.) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2014, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fury-the-movie-colour-of-tracers-dont-worry-no-spoilers-in-op/706671/2 "2014-12-08T19:57:27Z")
The filmmakers probably used surplus Soviet or Chinese ammo. ---
**Author:** ![Mk\_VII](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Mk\_VII](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mk_VII)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2014, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fury-the-movie-colour-of-tracers-dont-worry-no-spoilers-in-op/706671/3 "2014-12-08T20:33:13Z")
The Germans used orange, red (most common) yellow (mostly air-air) and white (slightly greenish). Green was tested but found to be difficult to track in fog or mist. US tracers were red; the British used red and white. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2014, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fury-the-movie-colour-of-tracers-dont-worry-no-spoilers-in-op/706671/4 "2014-12-08T21:24:28Z")
Ah, thanks. A bit surprising then, since there was supposedly a lot of effort in making the props for the movie historically accurate (things like the weapons, tanks, uniforms and insignias, etc.). ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2014, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fury-the-movie-colour-of-tracers-dont-worry-no-spoilers-in-op/706671/5 "2014-12-08T22:08:23Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > The filmmakers probably used surplus Soviet or Chinese ammo. I am pretty sure they didn’t use any ammunition at all for those scenes. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2014, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fury-the-movie-colour-of-tracers-dont-worry-no-spoilers-in-op/706671/6 "2014-12-08T23:13:14Z")
A bit of digging through Google leads me to believe that the tracers from the large caliber, main tank guns would definitely have been green.