P-47 Thunderbolt

Choose an answer from the three choices and True or False offered after each question and then "Check Your Answers" at the end of the quiz.

1. The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt was the largest single-engines fighter of its day, and a vast improvement over the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, its predecessor. What was the fighter also known as?

2. When did the P-47 make its maiden flight?

• May 6, 1941
• July 4, 1941
• December 1, 1941

3. What was the initial fighter group that flew the P-47?

• 56th Fighter Group
• 65th Fighter Group
• 75th Fighter Group

4. Major Don Blakeslee of the 4th FG scoring the Thunderbolt's first air victory.

• True or False

5. Republic could not produce Thunderbolts fast enough at its Farmingdale plant on Long Island, so a new plant was built. Where was the new plant’s location?

• Evansville, Indiana
• South Bend, Indiana
• Mount Vernon, Illinois

6. Steve Earle's song is about an American P-47 pilot in World War II; it contains a verse "My P-47 is a pretty good ship/ She took a round comin' cross the channel last trip." Name the song?

7. The P-47 served with the Army Air Forces (United States Air Force after 1947) until 1949, and with the Air National Guard until 1953. In 1948 it received a new designation. What was the new designation?

• F-10
• F-47
• FB-47

8. The P-47N was the last Thunderbolt variant to be produced. It was designed as an escort fighter for the B-29 Superfortress bombers. Where was their missions?

• Japan
• Korea
• China

9. The P-47 gradually became the USAAF's best fighter-bomber, carrying the 500 pound bombs, the triple-tube M-8 4.5 inch rocket launchers, and eventually HVARs.

• True or False?

10. What was the nickname for the bubbletop P-47s by combat pilots in the field?

• High Prince
• Superbolts
• Lookout Watch

Check Your Answers

• 1. Jug
• 2. May 6, 1941
• 3. 56th Fighter Group
• 4. True
• 5. Evansville, Indiana
• 6. Johnny Come Lately
• 7. F-47
• 8. Japan
• 9. True
• 10. Superbolts

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