The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt was one of WW II's largest and heaviest single piston engine fighter aircraft.
It used the same Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp engine as the Grumman Hellcat and Chance Vought Corsair. Armament consisted of eight .50-calibre machine guns, four per wing. When fully loaded, the P-47 weighed up to eight tons. In the fighter-bomber ground-attack role five-inch rockets or a significant bomb load of 2,500 pounds could be carried.
It was very effective as...
