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Bravery doesn't mean you're not scared...It means you go into harms way anyway !!
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The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt is the most badass aircraft to ever fly. It may not be stealthy or have a jet engine, but it didn't need that to get the job done.
As the saying goes, if you want to send a picture home to your sweetheart, you take it with the Mustang. If you want to make it home to her, you fly the Thunderbolt.
This plane possessed an incredible potential to kick ass:
Its primary armament was eight .50-caliber machine guns and in the fighter-bomber ground-attack role it could carry five-inch rockets or a bomb load of 2,500 pounds (1,103 kg). When fully loaded the P-47 weighed up to eight tons making it one of the heaviest fighters of the war.
The P-47 was designed around the powerful Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp engine which was also used by two U.S. Navy fighters, the Grumman F6F Hellcat and the Vought F4U Corsair. The Thunderbolt was effective as a short-to-medium range escort fighter in high-altitude air-to-air combat and ground attack in both the World War II European and Pacific theaters.
The armored cockpit was relatively roomy and comfortable, the bubble canopy introduced on the P-47D in particular offering good visibility.
Pilots would count bullet holes in the hundreds, missing control surfaces due to flak or cannon shells, but very rarely would "The Jug" fall out of the sky.
All these P-47's made it back to home base...
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As the saying goes, if you want to send a picture home to your sweetheart, you take it with the Mustang. If you want to make it home to her, you fly the Thunderbolt.
This plane possessed an incredible potential to kick ass:
Its primary armament was eight .50-caliber machine guns and in the fighter-bomber ground-attack role it could carry five-inch rockets or a bomb load of 2,500 pounds (1,103 kg). When fully loaded the P-47 weighed up to eight tons making it one of the heaviest fighters of the war.
The P-47 was designed around the powerful Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp engine which was also used by two U.S. Navy fighters, the Grumman F6F Hellcat and the Vought F4U Corsair. The Thunderbolt was effective as a short-to-medium range escort fighter in high-altitude air-to-air combat and ground attack in both the World War II European and Pacific theaters.
The armored cockpit was relatively roomy and comfortable, the bubble canopy introduced on the P-47D in particular offering good visibility.
Pilots would count bullet holes in the hundreds, missing control surfaces due to flak or cannon shells, but very rarely would "The Jug" fall out of the sky.
All these P-47's made it back to home base...
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The present-day U.S. ground-attack "tank killer"... the Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II ... takes its name from the P-47.
Double Trouble
F8F Bearcat
F6F Hellcat
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Double Trouble
F8F Bearcat
F6F Hellcat
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A" Warthog" to me.
Copy that...!!
Had pairs of A-10's from the 111th Fighter Wing of the Pennsylvania Air National Guard flying tandem out of Willow Grove NAS-JRB over my house for years before the Navy departed under BRAC around 2011.
As of 2013...the renamed 111th Attack Wing was slated to acquire ground control stations to remotely fly the MQ-9 Reaper which became operational in late 2016.
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Had pairs of A-10's from the 111th Fighter Wing of the Pennsylvania Air National Guard flying tandem out of Willow Grove NAS-JRB over my house for years before the Navy departed under BRAC around 2011.
As of 2013...the renamed 111th Attack Wing was slated to acquire ground control stations to remotely fly the MQ-9 Reaper which became operational in late 2016.
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M48a5 Patton Tank shown with a Bell UH-1 Iroquois (nicknamed "Huey") Helicopter :
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M47 Patton Tank :
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Father of the Jet airplane.
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/me-262-jet-planes.html
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/me-262-jet-planes.html
Ah yes...the ME 262.
Seen one up close at an air show at the Willow Grove NAS quite a few years back.
Took 35mm film pictures that never got scanned into digital.
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Seen one up close at an air show at the Willow Grove NAS quite a few years back.
Took 35mm film pictures that never got scanned into digital.
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Lockheed P38 Lightning... Pacific Theater
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Lockheed P38 Lightning... D-Day Markings
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North American Aviation P-51D Mustang
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Vought F4U Corsair ( USMC )
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Grumman F6F Hellcat
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Curtiss P-40 Warhawk ( Flying Tiger )
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Curtiss SB2C Helldiver
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Huey's gunner hole.
Note the spare barrel up there with the smokes.
Note the spare barrel up there with the smokes.
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
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North American B-25 Mitchell
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RAF Bristol Blenheim Bomber
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