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 ...

*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 ...

It's the stuff of legends. A World War II-era P-47 Thunderbolt fighter plane crash lands in a boundless swamp on a routine flight out of Wilmington. For the next 52 years it sprawls there, damaged and ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Zemke’s Wolfpack ended the war the top-scoring U.S. fighter group of the 8 th Air Force, with 665.5 recognized aerial kills—or one thousand aircraft destroyed, ...

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