Second Lt. Lester L. Lowry was flying a P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft when he lost control in heavy cloud and dove straight into ...

Neel Kearby became a hardcore “believer” in the P-47 and devoted himself to developing a doctrine for making the most of the ...

1st Lt. Jack McWilliams of Somers crashed in France in 1945 while flying a P-47 Thunderbolt. Declared dead in 1946, his remains were discovered in 1951. Today the nearby town of Kauffenheim boasts a ...

DAVIS-MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz. — Sitting in a wheelchair with images of airplanes on his shirt and a U.S. Army Air Corps hat on his head, 92-year-old retired Air National Guard Chief Warrant ...

In 1945, Gerald Teldon was 20 years old and piloting a P-47 Thunderbolt over the skies of southern Europe, flying escort missions and supporting ground forces. It would take seven decades, though, to ...

Republic Aviation is known for one of two iconic warplanes, the P-47 Thunderbolt of World War II fame, and its burley descendant, the A-10 Thunderbolt II, or the Warthog, as so many people lovingly ...

John T. Wozer started from the ground up in becoming a pilot with the Army Air Forces. After graduating from St. Bernard High School in Bradford, Pa., he found work with the Army Corps of Engineers ...

This is why the P-47 Thunderbolt may have been the best fighter plane of World War 2. Bristling with eight .50 caliber machine guns and payloads of rockets and bombs, the P-47’s effectiveness came ...

Cottrell ended the war with sixty-five combat missions under his belt in his trusty P-47. As The National Interest has recently reported, World War II fighter pilots (not to mention WWII veterans in ...

Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz. | Sitting in a wheelchair with airplanes on his shirt and a U.S. Army Air Corp hat on his head, 92-year-old retired Air National Guard Chief Warrant Officer 2 ...