P-47 The Republic Thunderbolt
The Republic Thunderbolt, also known as the P-47 Thunderbolt, arrived in January of 1943. The P-47 was a fighter/ bomber airplane. The main purpose of this aircraft was to escort the Allied bombers to the target zone because the bombers were not able to defend themselves. It proved to be an important plane to the Allied forces. It's wingspan was forty feet nine inches, it's height was twelve feet eight inches, and the length was a little more than thirty-six feet. The Thunderbolt was a seven ton monster with a flying range of 550 miles. It contained a rugged 2,000 horsepower single radial- engine that allowed the plane to reach a top speed of 433 miles per hour and allowed the plane to climb as high as 42,000 feet. It was the first American fighter to fly into the sound barrier and not be destroyed. It had eight .50 caliber machine guns on its' wings. One of the problems that the Thunderbolt had was that it was not able to climb very fast like the German planes could. However, it could out dive any Germ
The 56th Fighter Group, also known as Wolf Pack, was fighter pilots who flew the Thunderbolts. In one mission, the group was able to keep sixty enemy planes from shooting down the bombers. On this mission, only two bombers were lost. In another mission deep inside of German territory, 500 bombers were flying over when enemy planes were about to attack. However, the Germans did not know about the new, extra fuel tank, and were astonished to find P-47's so far inside their territory. Two hundred Allied fighters came on the offensive with Wolf Pack being part of the fighters. Only seventeen bombers were destroyed with the Allies pulling off another victory. The pilots are only as good as their planes are, and the P-47's were among the toughest planes at that time. They were so tough that a Wolf Pack pilot was shot several times by a German airplane's machine gun fire. Oil spurted out of the engine and caused it to run roughly, and all of a sudden the plane went into a dive with more machine gun hits. The pi
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