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Imperial War Museum. Duxford, Cambridgeshire, UK. 2019 Battle of Britain air show. Republic thunderbolt. #159609716
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Imperial War Museum. Duxford, Cambridgeshire, UK. 2019 Battle of Britain air show. Republic thunderbolt, or Thud!The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt was a World War II era fighter aircraft produced by the United States from 1941 through 1945. Its primary armament was eight.50-caliber machine guns and in the fighter-bomber ground-attack role it could carry five-inch rockets or a bomb load of 2,500 pounds. When fully loaded, the P-47 weighed up to eight tons, making it one of the heaviest fighters of the war.
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