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The '''P-47''' fighter plane, nicknamed the '''Thunderbolt''', was the workhorse tactical airplane of the US Army Air Forces (AAF) in [[World War II]]. In a frantic technological race against the Nazis, American designers created a series of fighters and bombers that had the speed, climb-rate, maneuverability, and range to do the job.
The '''P-47''' fighter plane, nicknamed the '''Thunderbolt''', was the workhorse tactical airplane of the US Army Air Forces (AAF) in [[World War II]]. In a frantic technological race against the Nazis, American designers created a series of fighters and bombers that had the speed, climb-rate, maneuverability, and range to do the job.
[[Image:P-47a.jpg|thumb|300px|318th Fighter Group's P-47's intercept Japansese "Betty" bomber, Pagan Island, 1944]]
==Origins==
==Origins==
==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==
* Cooling, Benjamin Franklin ed. ''Close Air Support'' (1990) GPO
* Cooling, Benjamin Franklin ed. ''Close Air Support'' (1990) GPO
* Craven, Wesley Frank and J. L. Cate. ''The Army Air Forces in World War II'' (1949), ''vol. 6: Men and Planes'' [http://www.airforcehistory.hq.af.mil/Publications/Annotations/cravenAAFWWII.htm online edition]
* Craven, Wesley and James Cate, eds. ''The Army Air Forces In World War II''] official history. (1948-55)
** [http://www.airforcehistory.hq.af.mil/Publications/fulltext/aaf_wwii-v3.pdf Volume Three: ''Europe: Argument to V-E Day January 1944 to May 1945'']
** [http://www.airforcehistory.hq.af.mil/Publications/fulltext/aaf_wwii-v6.pdf Volume Six: ''Men and Planes'']
* Johnsen, Frederick A. ''Republic P-47 Thunderbolt'' (1999) [http://www.amazon.com/Republic-P-47-Thunderbolt-WarbirdTech-23/dp/1580070183/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192685947&sr=1-2 excerpt and text search]
* Johnsen, Frederick A. ''Republic P-47 Thunderbolt'' (1999) [http://www.amazon.com/Republic-P-47-Thunderbolt-WarbirdTech-23/dp/1580070183/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192685947&sr=1-2 excerpt and text search]
* McFarland, Stephen L. and Wesley Phillips Newton. ''To Command the Sky: The Battle for Air Superiority over Germany, 1942-1944'' (1991)
* McFarland, Stephen L. and Wesley Phillips Newton. ''To Command the Sky: The Battle for Air Superiority over Germany, 1942-1944'' (1991)