Word: p47
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...enlisted men, and 9,000 tons of equipment. Next day, while fighting went on in plain view, survey parties, each including six engineer-riflemen, set out to plot the new field. Within 24 hours they had bulldozed enough coral gravel to fill in 600 shell craters, and the first P47 Thunderbolt fighter landed...
...Republic's P47 Thunderbolt, which mounts eight .50-cal. machine guns, can also carry at least a 1,000-lb. load...
...news was concealed in an optimistic release which chose to stress increased production of long-range bombers-Boeing B-29s and the new super-Liberator, the B32. But what the War Department had mainly done was to cancel C46 cargo-plane production at Higgins in New Orleans, and cutback P47 output...
...P47 Thunderbolts, escorting bombers over Germany, found the release mechanisms of their auxiliary wing fuel tanks jammed. Unless the empty tanks could be jettisoned at once, the fighters would have to break for home, their mission incomplete. Their wing pilots came to the rescue. At 300 m.p.h., one mile above ground, the wing men flew formation to within 18 inches of the lead ships, then batted the tanks off with their wingtips...
Since Johnson flies a P47 Thunderbolt, Army airmen can continue their argument about the relative merits of P-38s and P-475. Johnson flies against the Germans and Bong against the Japs; most airmen lately have been willing to concede that the Germans provide tougher opposition...