P-47 Thunderbolts Against the German Army

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[johndilday]

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. They were very proud to work for the war effort. I would like to think that they helped to build your plane. My mother installed radios and my grandparents installed the aluminum skins on the aircraft. Thanks for sharing.

[playopene]

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.

[smellyfella]

Basically the 9th was tactical and the 8th was strategic. Thanks for summing it up for the vast others that do not know the difference between the two strategies.

[Special.Purpose.Weapon]

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[nuke]

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

[michaelmeier]

Best WW2 channel ever. You could make one hell of a Netflix documentary with your amazing skills and attention to detail.

[ThetrueJester]

Tj coming in to make Friday a great day! Appreciate all you do GOAT, Stay awesome!

[Eisbaer-xhgx]

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

[JUNKERS]

A New TJ3 Video What a great way to start the day and weekend . Another awesome story told by a pilot that was there. It's great to hear these Heroes tell us
What it was like to be there. Thank you for all your hard work and research you put into these stories and interviews they are simply the best. Please " Keep 'em flyin we've got your six".

[BarneyR-ud]

Thank you TJ! It’s always a joy to see what you’ve compiled into a detailed documentary. ❤

[kystars]

I have a soft spot for the P40. It was flown by the famous Flying Tigers. It was NOT a bad fighter plane. It was used all over the world because the US had it in large numbers. The Russians liked it very well fighting the Germans. As did the British in Africa fighting the Germans. It was the main fighter at Pearl Harbor and shot down a number of Japanese aircraft, about 15 or a little more that day. The Japanese lost 29 planes that day. A Older P36 that day actually shot down the Japanese Zero. But I admit my favorite is the P47 Thunderbolt.. or JUG.. Bob Johnson. read his book with the 56th fighter group. The Germans actually said the P47 had to be handled very carefully. It could take an astounding amount of lead, with seemingly no effect to its performance. This was said by German fighter pilots. I read all the books by all pilots in world war 2. :) My dad's friend flew a P47 Thunderbolt.. You can see his photo if you look him up.. Herb Boyle. He shot down a Spitfire with it. Yes a British Spitfire. My dad asked why.. Herb said he started shooting at me first, so I shot him down. Could have been a captured aircraft.

[SeadartVSG]

My father was in the 8th Airforce and his unit was assigned to bases in Belgium to provide ground support during the battle of the bulge. His base was attacked during operation Bodenplatte. We have a scrapbook with photos from the base with other 8th airforce fighters and 9th airforce fighters identifiable by the painting on the nose cowlings. I have not found much information about the 8th airforce fighters doing ground support at that time. I remember his stories about when the weather cleared and it became a "turkey shoot". I think with official WWII histories there is a lot of the USAAF recorded information that is partially incorrect or incomplete'. Unfortunately most of the guys who knew the full stories have passed on. When I was very young I remember one of my dad's friends, talking about trying to shoot tanks with rockets from his P-47 which he said he never actually able hit a tank with a rocket, but when they fired on the tanks in Belgium with 8 machine guns the Germans would get out of the tanks and run.

[jimc]

Another great researched and animated production, TJ! Cottrell is an absolute American hero!! Jim C.

[PaulBrennan-bm]

The RAF sometimes worked in tandam with the P47s the RAF Typhoon's 🌀 on low level ground attack and the Typhoon's 🌀 where first class

[sergioleone]

Great stuff. The visuals looked really great as usual, liked the part with the Piper Cub at the beginning.

It's close air support day for me, I just watched a quick fun bit on the A-10, a descendent of the P-47 in some ways. Anyone that's ever seen that bird doing its thing in the air knows just how lovely it is.

[scottwilson]

Wow, Ed Cottrell is Amazing, P47 pilot and survives still! A Pennsylvania Boy! Thank You TJ3History.

[wittwittwer]

These animations always show firing from an aircraft's wing guns coming out in parallel streams. A P-47's guns were adjusted so that their bullets would converge 300 yards in front of the aircraft. That means that any target 300 yds in front would be subjected to the concentrated impact of eight .50 cal machine guns.

[donl]

What a story and a history lesson all at the same time, thanks for sharing !

[tmanwattsutube]

That was an excellent video. In addition to relevant and well directed use of animation, pulling and showing the old documentation of the missions and personnel gave t his video a level of authenticity I don't experience on most other aviation channels I watch. Great job and thank you!

[billyray]

Another outstanding video, with incredible attention to detail.