In 1974, aircraft designer Alexander Kartveli died at the age of 77. Among the plane he designed was the P-47 Thunderbolt; in their obituary for Kartveli, The New York Times succinctly explained the P ...

A successful high-altitude bomber and America's leading fighter in the ground-attack role, the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The juiced-up engines of the P-47Ms were plagued by serious technical problems. Pilots nicknamed early-model P-47 Thunderbolts the “Razorback,” a reference to the chunky ...

Pilots nicknamed early-model P-47 Thunderbolts the “Razorback,” a reference to the chunky fighter plane’s angular canopy. However, the name was more generally appropriate—like a wild boar, the hulking ...

This is another edition of my countdowns series, 5 things you never knew about the World War II fighter, the P-47 Thunderbolt ...

Aug. 12, 1944, was Norbert’s 35th and what would be his final mission just three days before the invasion of Southern France.

EVANSVILLE, Ind. — The P-47 Thunderbolt “Tarheel Hal” which returned to Evansville in October, has been renamed “Hoosier Spirit II" and might be designated as the official state aircraft of Indiana.

EVANSVILLE, Ind. — The world-famous P-47 Thunderbolt, Tarheel Hal, is returning home to Evansville. The community will have a chance to view it in flight Thursday afternoon. The plane will be housed ...

“The P-47 was one of the most versatile aircraft we had in World War II,” says Jeremy Kinney, curator and chair of the aeronautics department at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, which ...

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