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Another great plane of the day was the P-47D Thunderbolt. Great big P&W Double Wasp R-2800 Radial air-cooled 18-cylinder engine making over 2,000 HP. Kind of an armored muscle car with wings and eight .50 cal machineguns, lol. Didn't turn for shit but had a great roll rate and could out-zoom climb most enemy fighters of the day. The Thunderbolt, sometimes nicknamed the "Jug," by its flightcrews, initially was the bomber escort fighter for the allies until the introduction of the P-51D Mustang.
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