This is why the P-47 Thunderbolt may have been the best fighter plane of World War 2. Bristling with eight .50 caliber ...

Along the way, the P-51 proved itself superior to alternative U.S. fighters like the P-38 and P-47. And, more importantly, the P-51 proved itself superior to Luftwaffe fighters like the ...

However, it selected the P-51 as its “standard” piston-powered fighter; the P-38 and P-47 were withdrawn from service or given substantially reduced roles. On September 18, 1947, the U.S. Air ...

Once Japan surrendered in September 1945, the P-47 was re-designated as the F-47. The last US Thunderbolt was pulled from active military duty in 1949 but continued to fly for the Air National ...

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 ...

By 1942, as many as 272 P-43s were produced in all of their variants. But by that point in the war, it was clear the 2800 Double Wasp-powered P-47 was ready to bring the fight to the Axis.

Armed with eight .50-caliber machine guns, the P-47 packed a devastating punch. The A-10’s 30-millimeter cannon with depleted-uranium shells made mincemeat out of Iraqi tanks in the First Gulf War.

In the 1930s, he created the Seversky P-35 for the U.S. Army Air Corps, which served as the model for the P-47. The new fighter made its first flight on May 6, 1941.