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

The Thunderbolt was heavy, powerful, and powerfully armed. It could also take a beating and limp back to base in one piece. Compared to other contemporary fighters, the P-47 was a beast: it weighed ...

“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 ...

Key point: These planes can take a punch and dish out a lot of punishment. Here’s how they both served as vital close air support. Everyone loves a Thunderbolt. Today’s A-10 Thunderbolt II, also known ...

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 ...

When a classic vehicle on two or four wheels is fully restored and given all the new-age bells and whistles, we call it a restomod. But when AirCorps Aviation of Bemidji, Minnesota, unveiled a ...

NEW YORK — Police divers and Army Corps of Engineers personnel retrieved the wreckage of a World War II plane from the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey on Saturday after the vintage ...

In the hierarchy of American fighter planes during World War II, the top will be forever populated by the P-51 Mustang and not much of anything else. The Mustang may get all the glory, but if you were ...

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.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) -- Divers with the New York Police Department and the Army Corps of Engineers have salvaged a vintager P-47 Thunderbolt after the plane crashed into the Hudson River Friday ...

City Connection has announced P-47 II MD, the unreleased Mega Drive version of the side-scrolling shoot ’em up game P47: The Phantom Fighter. P-47: The Phantom Fighter was originally developed by NMK ...