A successful high-altitude bomber and America's leading fighter in the ground-attack role, the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt served the USAAF from 1941 to 1945. Produced by Republic Aviation, the ...
*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Nicknamed "Jug," Republic's P-47 Thunderbolt was one of the most famous Army Air Force fighter planes of World War II. Although ...
EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Hundreds of people turned out at the Evansville Riverfront on a breezy Saturday afternoon, watching the sunny blue sky and waiting to see a piece of this town's World War II ...
Cottrell ended the war with sixty-five combat missions under his belt in his trusty P-47. As The National Interest has recently reported, World War II fighter pilots (not to mention WWII veterans in ...
Pilots nicknamed early-model P-47 Thunderbolts the “Razorback,” a reference to the chunky fighter plane’s angular canopy. However, the name was more generally appropriate—like a wild boar, the hulking ...
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In the hierarchy of American fighter planes during World War II, the top will be forever populated by the P-51 Mustang and not much of anything else. The Mustang may get all the glory, but if you were ...
When a classic vehicle on two or four wheels is fully restored and given all the new-age bells and whistles, we call it a restomod. But when AirCorps Aviation of Bemidji, Minnesota, unveiled a ...
Look at this Beautiful 70th Anniversary USAF F-16 from the Texas Air National Guard. Special paint schemes on combat aircraft are common enough now that it is impossible to report on them all, but ...