The WW-2 famous Republic P-47

P-47 Thunderbolt
P-47N flying over the Pacific during World War II.
I was a crew chief on one of the famous Republic P-47

This was during the Korean War.

I Joined the Tennessee  Air National to learn the Pratt& Whitney  R-2800.

American started flying the Convair 240 which had the R-2800.

Role	Fighter-bomber
Manufacturer	Republic Aviation
Designer	Alexander Kartveli
First flight	6 May 1941
Introduction	November 1942[1]
Retired	1966, Peruvian Air Force
Primary users	United States Army Air Forces Royal Air Force French Air Force
Produced	1941–1945
Number built	15,660[2] or 15,677[3]
Unit cost	US$85,000 in 1945[4][not in citation given]
Variants	Republic XP-72

The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt is one of the largest and heaviest fighter aircraft in history to be powered by a single piston engine. It was built from 1941-1945. It was heavily armed with eight .50-caliber machine guns, four per wing. When fully loaded, the P-47 weighed up to eight tons, and in the fighter-bomber ground-attack roles could carry five-inch rockets or a significant bomb load of 2,500 pounds; it could carry more than half the payload of the B-17 bomber on long-range missions (although the B-17 had a far greater range). The P-47 was designed around the powerful Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp engine—