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The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt had the distinction of being the heaviest single-engine fighter to see service in World War Two. The P-47 originated with a June 1940 proposal by Republic designer Alexander Kartveli to base a fighter on the new Pratt & Whitney R-2800 twin-row radial engine, turbo-supercharged for high-altitude performance. In this video, we take a look at one of the most versatile aircraft we had in World War II
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⏰ Timestamps
00:00 Alexander Seversky
02:19 The P-47 Emerges
05:49 Aerial Combat
09:23 Fighter-Bomber
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I adore this airplane for it’s ability to take a hit. I’ve read stories of enemy shells in combination chambers and getting home.
Very well done. Absolutely love this massive beast of a single engine fighter-bomber.
My Uncle went from flying the P-38 to the Jug for the 56th in 1942. He missed being an ace by one plane, but said he killed a lot of train engines!
My father was a Combat Veteran in the South Pacific Campaign and served on Guam, Tinian, Saipan and Iwo Jima. Dad was a flightline engineer and mechanic on the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt in the 20th USAAF, 7th Army Air Corp, 414th Fighter/Bomber Group, 413th F/B Squadron.
He always told us what a fantastic and tough plane the P-47 was!!
It turned out to be a much better attack plane than fighter. The German fighters were more agile. It was tough to shoot down.
As big as the P-47 is, the F6F Hellcat is right there with it, and operated of aircraft carriers
You can’t make a video about the P-47 without having a cross-sectional drawing showing why the Jug is so big and fat; i.e. the crazy big and complicated turbosupercharger system with all its ductwork that makes up for most of the P-47s size.
This aircraft really packed a serious punch with 8x .50 Cal MGs.
It should have been sent to Korea instead of P-51 Mustang, where the latter was susceptible to ground fire. P-47 would have been the excellent platform in providing CAS to UN troops.
Not to forget the development capacity of this bird look at the technical data of a P47N .
A true high power fast fighter with
incredible range made for the pacific war. Despite of being a heavyweight better agility than P47D.
At the end they had one or two prototyps with the Pratt & Whitney
4360 Radial for the next generation.
Well done on the video👍👍👍
My favorite WWII birds; F4U-4 Corsair, B-24 Liberator, P-47 Thunderbolt, and the P-40 Warhawk
Always worth the wait. Best ground attack aircraft suprised me. Surely the Mosquito was second! Full of great facts, information, and new to me footage. Superlative effort again.
Packing bombs, rockets & EIGHT 50 cal machine guns—YEOW ! What a winged BEAST !!! Anyone interested in The Jug, should read Marvin Bledsoe`s book THUNDERBOLT. One of only a handful of books, written by actual WW2 combatants, that PUTS YOU THERE !
The P-47 was a game changer = Awesome Plane 💥👀👍…..Thanks
Elegant isn’t a word that could be associated with the P47, however if I was going into combat I’d feel a lot safer in a Thunderbolt than a BF109, Spitfire, Mustang or Hurricane!
I was a professional military artist for 25 years in the 80’s-’00’s working for the US military, the CAF, Tuskegee Airmen and many museums, restorers and pilots associations. And the P-47 was SO loved. 8 .50s and 3400 rds of ammo vs the P-51s only 6 guns and 1880 rds. Could carry 3000 lbs of ordnance/drop tanks vs the P-51s only 1000 lbs. Was the fastest diving piston-powered fighter with its electric dive flaps, was almost as fast as the P-51, and then with the M model was THE fastest piston-powered aircraft that actually saw combat. The long-range N model became THE premier escort fighter with the B-29s, and it had THE best survival rate per-mission of any fighter in WWII, getting its precious pilots home even with entire cylinders of its P&W R-2800 shot away, where the vulnerable liquid-cooled Merlins had to be ditched with one tiny hole in their coolant system. With its TURBO-supercharged engine, it was THE best high altitude fighter of WWII except for a few Ta-152s that came too little, too late. The P-47 flew 746,000 missions in WWII, more than the P-38, P-40 and P-51…COMBINED and it broke the back of the Luftwaffe when it still had good pilots over a year before the P-51s had arrived in force.
My favorite WWII plane
Im so happy these video are coming back little by little
“USAAF claimed to have destroyed 120-140 tanks, yet of the 46 Axis tanks lost, only 9 of them could be attributed to aircraft. ” Just want to correct a common misconception.
Man, the footage in these videos is pretty ratty sometimes. But not even 30 seconds in, the narrator is talking about him losing a leg in WW1 in 1915 and they have footage from Vietnam! Troops jumping out of a chopper. Like zero effort there.
Proof that that this is a computer narrator: Me 262 was pronounced “Mee 262”, not “Em Eee 262”. A human would know the correct pronunciation. A computer would look at “Me” and pronounce it “Mee”. Would it cost that much more to have a human do the narration vs. having a computer do it? This is a good channel otherwise.