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 ...

Neel Kearby became a hardcore “believer” in the P-47 and devoted himself to developing a doctrine for making the most of the ...

Second Lt. Lester L. Lowry was flying a P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft when he lost control in heavy cloud and dove straight into ...

Whereas the quick and agile North American P-51 Mustang, the legendary fighter that dominated the skies of World War II, and Lockheed's P-38 did indeed bring the "Lighting," Republic Aviation's P-47 ...

Written off as too clumsy for combat, the P-47 Thunderbolt made one of the most dramatic comebacks in aviation history, becoming a ground-attack monster that shredded German and Japanese forces.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Boeing won the $20 billion contract to develop the US Air Force's sixth-gen stealth fighter, the F-47. The designation is a nod to the P-47 fighter, the Air Force's founding year, and the 47th ...