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 ...

The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt emerged from a design philosophy that sought to extract every possible advantage from contemporary aeronautical knowledge. From its earliest conception, the aircraft was ...

Click to open image viewer. 2000-horsepower radial engine, eight .50 caliber machine guns, tail-wheel type landing gear. Yellow and black checkered nose with AAF insignia on wings. Thunderbolt pilots ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The juiced-up engines of the P-47Ms were plagued by serious technical problems. Pilots nicknamed early-model P-47 Thunderbolts the “Razorback,” a reference to the chunky ...

The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt (nicknamed "Jug") was one of the top US Army Air Forces fighter planes of WWII. It is counted among the warplanes produced in the highest numbers, and it saw excellent ...

The Thunderbolt was heavy, powerful, and powerfully armed. It could also take a beating and limp back to base in one piece. Compared to other contemporary fighters, the P-47 was a beast: it weighed ...

Nicknamed "Jug," Republic's P-47 Thunderbolt was one of the most famous Army Air Force fighter planes of World War II. {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there ...

Some fighter planes seem to get all the love. It doesn't matter if it's the P-51, F-22, Spitfire, or a MiG-21. A select handful of all-time greats are household names, and the rest are all but ...

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 ...

The wreck of the sole Thunderbolt prototype, one of World War II’s fiercest and fastest warplanes, which crashed into the Long Island Sound in 1942 shortly after taking off from Republic Airport, has ...