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P-47D "Kathie" with a 75 US gal (62 imp gal; 284 L) drop tank buzzed the airfield at Bodney, England. P-47s were operated by several Allied air arms during World War II. The RAF received 240 razorback P-47Ds, which they designated Thunderbolt Mark I, and 590 bubbletop P-47D-25s, designated Thunderbolt Mark IIs.
P-47D-26-RA, Evansville equivalent of the D-25-RE, but with a 13' Curtiss Electric propeller. [4] 250 built. [8] P-47D-27-RE, with an improved water injection system and drop tank controls as well as a new starter. [4] 615 built. [8] P-47D-28-RE, with minor changes to the cockpit and a radio direction finder. The Curtiss Electric propeller of ...
Externally identical to the P-47D bubbletops, the P-47M had an up-powered R-2800-57C engine and also incorporated all the range-extending characteristics previously developed for the P-47, particularly use of a 215-gallon belly drop tank. The 61st Fighter Squadron received the first P-47M-1-REs [34] and immediately began encountering engine ...
During that rapid advance across France the 373rd Fighter Group and other XIX Tactical Air Command units blazed the way for General Patton's tank columns. The 373rd, along with the other units, provided "umbrella cover" for the advancing ground forces, knocked out enemy rail and railroad transportation, and struck again and again at enemy tanks ...
Republic P-47D-40-RA Thunderbolt 45-49192 presented as P-47D-25-RE 42-26671 'No Guts-No Glory' (MX-X) of the 82nd Fighter Squadron, 78th Fighter Group, nicknamed "No Guts-No Glory!", while flying for Claire Aviation in Wilmington, Delaware, USA. The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt is an American fighter aircraft.
342d Fighter Squadron P-51D Mustang in 1945 [e] Second Lieutenant Stanley E. Michalowski, 342nd Fighter Squadron, standing by his P-51D Mustang, Ie Shima, Japan, August 1945. On Leyte the 348th had done experimental bombing with a new and highly effective firebomb weapon, and it was proposed that it be used to break the deadlock in Zigzag Pass.
Equipped with P-47D Thunderbolts, operations commenced on 12 August 1943. It was the fourth P-47 unit to join the Eighth Air Force. It was the fourth P-47 unit to join the Eighth Air Force. From Metfield the 353rd flew numerous counter-air missions and provided escort for bombers that attacked targets in western Europe, made counter-air sweeps ...
P-47 Thunderbolts from the 318th Fighter Group taking off from East Field on Saipan, Marianas Islands in October 1944. Lead ship: "Big Squaw" Republic-Evansville P-47D-20-RA Thunderbolt s/n 43-25327 19th FS, 318th FG, 7th AF Assigned to John "Jack" H. Payne. The 318th Fighter Group was a World War II United States Army Air Forces combat ...