What REALLY Happened to America's P-47 Thunderbolts After WW2
The United States scrapped over 15,000 P-47 Thunderbolts within three years of World War Two ending. They melted them at Kingman, burned them overseas, and sold the aluminum for cents on the dollar — while Bolivia kept flying theirs until 1974. But the aircraft wasn't the only thing they destroyed. The close air support doctrine the P-47 had proven over France and Germany was buried alongside it. America spent the next thirty years relearning that lesson in Korea and Vietnam before finally building the A-10 Warthog — and naming it after the aircraft they should never have scrapped. Fewer than thirty P-47s fly today. From 15,686 built. #P47Thunderbolt #WW2Aviation #MilitaryHistory #WW2History #ForgottenHistory #AviationHistory #WW2Aircraft #A10Warthog #AirPowerHistory #WW2Documentary
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