P-47 Thunderbolts Against the German Army

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  @TJ3 · 2 years ago (edited) · pinned

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• JO

  @johndilday1846 · 2 years ago

  My mom and her parents worked six days a week during the war at the Republic Aircraft factory in Evansville, Indiana making P-47 fighter planes. &nbsp;They were very proud to work for the war effort. &nbsp;I would like to think that they helped to build your plane. &nbsp;My mother installed radios and my grandparents installed the aluminum skins on the aircraft. &nbsp;Thanks for sharing.

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  @JudeeAdair · 2 months ago

  My dad was trained in the P-47 at a USAAF base in Abilene, TX during WW II. &nbsp;He told me on more than one occasion that he didn&apos;t like flying the P-40 either (and for the same reasons Ed gave). &nbsp;The narrow landing gear and its tendency to &quot;ground loop&quot; (but he absolutely LOVED the P-47). &nbsp;When I interviewed him shortly before he passed away (in 2017) he said, &quot;The P-47 was big and clumsy on the ground but once you got that thing in the air, it was a different story.&quot;

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• NU

  @nuke19491 · 2 years ago

  My dad sailed to Europe on the Île de France! He was a B-24 bomber pilot in the 8th AAF

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• AC

  @Acetheskyhook · 1 year ago

  P-47 is a fun plane to fly in combat flight sim. &nbsp;Its a damn hammer when it comes to ground attack roles.

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• EI

  @Eisbaer-xh9gx · 2 years ago

  My Dad was with the US 1st ID from Normandy to Cologne and he always said the &nbsp;Jug was the infantrymen&apos;s best friend

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• TA

  @taboovsknowledge1603 · 1 year ago

  I sold the house I was living in to a older man. 20 years later, I looked up this older man. He was George H Ottendorf. He was a captain in the air force in WW2, Korea &amp; Vietnam.<br>He was interviewed recently and said, &quot;I&apos;m looking for a woman that likes to dance&quot;!<br>When I sold him the house, he came by about 3 times &amp; we were sitting in the nook. He keep telling me, &quot;If your ever in Italy, ask for some grappa&quot;! Then said&quot; I don&apos;t know why I tell people that&quot;!

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• PL

  @playopene5991 · 1 year ago

  Thanks! I grew up on Jugs,Lightning’s,Corsairs and the ground attack aircraft I would give all 3 of those for. The J model Mitchell. Keep it up. WWII Was just yesterday to me.

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• DA

  @davidselden6843 · 2 months ago (edited)

  My father flew for 406th fighter group.<br>P47s in 1944. Flew during battle of the bulge.<br>9th Air Force.😊

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  @natewojo123 · 1 year ago

  I have an autographed &nbsp;photo of Ed shown at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFuWXWFex64&amp;t=112">1:52</a> seconds. I got to meet him and he gave me an autographed photo!!!

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• KE

  @kennethbarrett3902 · 2 years ago

  <b>I know this wasn’t the main topic of this video and was only briefly mentioned at the very end of the video</b> HOWEVER My old pastor when I was growing up in Georgia as a kid was a veteran of World War II and was at the battle of the bulge. During the battle there was troop photographer that had been with Preacher Kitchens unit for a few months and had befriended my old Pastor where they was “good pals” as my preacher said. And during the battle that day they heard incoming enemy planes and of course the snow was thick so moving quickly was almost impossible bunt the man looked up and snapped a picture of the plane which had dropped a bomb directly above the photographer and he snapped a picture really quick and yelled for Bro. Kitchens to catch and he threw his camera as hard as he could bc they was a good distance away and the man had managed to take a picture of the bomb that inevitably took his life as it was coming straight down at him….upon arrival back home in the USA he got all of the film developed and the Camera took the picture clear as day of the bomb and the group of planes that had dropped it. So he was able to snap a picture of the thing that killed him and preacher kitchens kept that photo and the camera on a shelf on display in his office at the church and later after retiring from the ministry due to health reasons in his living room. Everytime he would show them to anyone who asked what it was you could tell that in his mind seeing it and talking about it took him right back to that snowy cold battlefield. Those kinda men are hero’s not what the media claims are hero’s now days from the drag queens reading to pre k and primary school students to the professional athletes making millions of dollars a year playin a sport. But now this country and our education system is teaching in schools as I seen in a high schoolers history book not all that long ago how Hitler was a great leader who should be praised. When yes I understand that he did bring his country out of a dark time making the economy flourish with a war time economy but in the process having thousands of men, women and children put to death in awful ways simply because of their religion or ethnicity or if they had disabilities. WW2 has always fascinated me to learn about and I try to teach my kids already at ages 3&amp;5 that if it wasn’t for the brave men and women of our military both in the past and present that many of them fought and died to allow us to have the freedoms and the lifestyle the we are fortunate to have today! Sorry for the long comment but that story deserves in my opinion the lengthy typing and reading. Thanks to all our Vets both in the past and those serving now!! We owe literally everything we have in life here in the USA to them!!! And it greatly saddens me that all of the rights and liberties that these men and women have fought and died for are slowly being taken away in the name political correctness and In blaming certain people or any group for any issues we have today, everyone is riding on this PC train and want our nation to become like other nations that have had to live and survive under tyrannical governments and government officials who stripped away the public’s rights and when you stop and look at what’s happening today in our nation we are skiing on a very slippery slope that once you go down there is no possibility of getting back up to the top where you started!

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  @historicalstoriesus · 1 year ago

  Watching those P-47s tear through German armor and convoys really puts into perspective how devastating air superiority can be. The sheer force and speed of those attacks was like thunder from the sky—no wonder they called it the “Jug.”

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