In November 1943, Second Lieutenant William E. Roach mistakenly landed his Republic P-47D Thunderbolt at the German-held ...
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The captured P-47 that revealed America’s secret advantage in World War II
In November 1943, a lost American P-47 Thunderbolt landed by mistake on a German airfield. The aircraft was handed to Hans-Werner Lerche, the Luftwaffe test pilot assigned to evaluate captured Allied ...
Click to open image viewer. 2000-horsepower radial engine, eight .50 caliber machine guns, tail-wheel type landing gear. Yellow and black checkered nose with AAF insignia on wings. Thunderbolt pilots ...
U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Burleigh E. Curtis, of Holliston, Mass., crashed in a World War II dive-bomb attack near Briouze, France, on June 13, 1944. (Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency via AP) ...
New Year’s Day, 1945, dawned clear and cold for the tired men of the 365th Fighter Group, stationed in Metz, France. Hangars that once sheltered the group’s three Republic P-47D Thunderbolt squadrons ...
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