Word: p47
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flat-Tired Take-Off. Major Gilbert Wymond, a Thunderbolt pilot from Kentucky, tried the unheard-of stunt of loading his P47 with two 1,000-lb, bombs. The load squashed his fully inflated tires nearly flat on the takeoff, but he staggered into the air. Since then P47 pilots have lugged two 1,000-pounders as a matter of routine...
Four in Hand. A P47 Thunderbolt pilot in Italy fired a long burst at a Messerschmitt 109 over Verona. The enemy's right wing flew off, hit another German plane. Both ships exploded. No one was more surprised than the U.S. pilot when his ship's automatic motion-picture films were run off. Reason: some of his fire had hit two other German aircraft, destroyed them...
Fighters escorted the bombers all the way in and back. The escort operated in waves: first, P-38 Lightnings, then P47 Thunderbolts. Finally, long-range P-51B Mustangs (see p. 61) came in for the final approach and run over the targets...
Thunderbolt (Republic P-47). First fought in the European Theater only a few months ago on a large scale, the turbosupercharged P47 is a hard-hitting, high-altitude specialist. Heavy as the familiar Ford trimotor, it has been used almost exclusively as a long-range bomber escort (as at Emden). Bombers run into comparatively little trouble when P-475 are escorting. The P-475 themselves, against German fighters, knocked down 5.8 German aircraft to every P47 that was lost in one recent month. Its overall ratio, from a fairly unimpressive start...
...P47 is the only Army super-powered single-engined fighter yet in service. The Navy...