Written off as too clumsy for combat, the P-47 Thunderbolt made one of the most dramatic comebacks in aviation history, ...

In the winter of 1944, as German forces pushed back across Belgium, the 48th Fighter Group, known as the Grim Reapers, played a critical role supporting the Allied Ninth Army. Flying the rugged P-47 ...

Whereas the quick and agile North American P-51 Mustang, the legendary fighter that dominated the skies of World War II, and Lockheed's P-38 did indeed bring the "Lighting," Republic Aviation's P-47 ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Zemke’s Wolfpack ended the war the top-scoring U.S. fighter group of the 8th Air Force, with 665.5 recognized aerial kills—or one thousand aircraft destroyed, ...

VICENZA, Italy — Army paratroopers teamed up with a Pentagon agency earlier this month to locate and bring home the remains of a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter pilot lost over central Italy during ...

Cottrell ended the war with sixty-five combat missions under his belt in his trusty P-47. As The National Interest has recently reported, World War II fighter pilots (not to mention WWII veterans in ...