In letters to his wife, a World War II veteran from Michigan shared love, fear and hope. Their daughter has preserved 250 ...
Last summer, we ran an article describing the arrival of the Commemorative Air Force’s partially rebuilt P-47N Thunderbolt ..
While the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt was the heaviest single-engine fighter plane of the war, it was a versatile and highly capable craft used in various roles. Equipped with a Pratt and Whitney R ...
The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, known affectionately as the ... It was the largest, heaviest, and costliest fighter single-piston engine-powered aircraft ever built in the history of fighters.
On this Veterans Day, we recognize one of the most legendary battles in American military history. This incredible story of ...
It is a freeware game inspired by the arcade game P47 Thunderbolt. Advertisement P-47 Freedom Fighter is a side scrolling, single-player, keyboard controlled shooter where the player flies the P ...
P-47D Thunderbolt Wolfpack Campaign 'Zemke's Wolfpack', the 56th Fighter Group was one of the most famous fighting units of the USAAF in World War II. Flying the P-47 Thunderbolt throughout their ...
There’s the P-47 Thunderbolt AKA “The Flying Bathtub ... down in history as arguably the best operational piston-engined fighter ever built, and was able to provide long-range escort ...
on a wide variety of its fighter aircraft, like the P-51 Mustang, P-47 Thunderbolt and P-38 Lightning. The Navy, though, used the "F" designation for its fighter aircraft. You can understand how ...
American crews at the base in Suffolk painted the fighter jet to look like a P-47 Thunderbolt, with chequered nose, stripes and several national insignias. Col Will Marshall said it paid tribute ...
391st Fighter Squadron. Aanenson's first combat mission was D-Day, June 6, 1944; he flew his P-47 Thunderbolt over the English Channel and dropped his bombs on German positions behind Pointe du ...
Some late war fighters featured the AN/APS-13 Tail Warning Radar to alert the pilot when an enemy fighter was on ... to aircraft like the P-51 Mustang and P-47 Thunderbolt, the AN/APS-13 warns ...