REPUBLIC P-47D THUNDERBOLT
Jul 07, 2022
3 minutes
WORDS STUART HADAWAY
his single-seat aircraft looks like an unlikely candidate to be one of the most successful fighters and fighter bombers of the Second World War. It lacks the streamlined grace of other fighters, with its massive rotary engine creating a blunt, stubby profile – but its brute force and unstoppable power led to the nickname Juggernaut, or just Jug, among its pilots. It was fast, reliable and very rugged, able to survive
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