[TinyTim]

Another idea: Maybe it would be better to indicate also number of remaining bullets instead/besides the number of expended ones.

that would be good but

in ww2 they didnt have HUD's woth that info and if you look and certin planes (F6F-5, Bufflo) they have ammo counters in them

but i fo like that first part of it

Agreed, but they also didn't have the blue right aligned "cannon jammed", "rudder controls disabled" and similar messagaes which can't even be turned off, they lacked our "on HUD" speed bar, they didn't have F6, Ctrl-F1, F7 or any other external view, they didn't have a refly button... This would be optional (which it is already by being a mod, but even better when it could be toggled from inside the game). Completely unhistorical I agree, but a very wellcome tool IMO in some specific scenarios, like training or testing.