P-47 Thunderbolt - Lom, Czech Republic
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A memorial a pilot of P-47 Thunderbolt
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Location: Ústecký kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 07/12/2017
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The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt was a World War II era fighter aircraft produced by the United States between 1941 and 1945. Its primary armament was eight .50-caliber machine guns and in the fighter-bomber ground-attack role it could carry five-inch rockets or a bomb load of 2,500 pounds (1,103 kg). When fully loaded the P-47 weighed up to eight tons (tonnes) making it one of the heaviest fighters of the war. The P-47 was designed around the powerful Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp engine which was also used by two U.S. Navy fighters, the Grumman F6F Hellcat and the Vought F4U Corsair. The Thunderbolt was effective as a short-to-medium range escort fighter in high-altitude air-to-air combat and ground attack in both the World War II European and Pacific theaters.
The P-47 was one of the main United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) fighters of World War II, and served with Allied air forces including France, Britain, and Russia. Mexican and Brazilian squadrons fighting alongside the U.S. were equipped with the P-47.
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CZ
Na konci II. svetové války, 17.4.1944 vzlétl na svuj první bojový let teprve jednadvacetiletý stíhací pilot John Halstead Banks III. Pri preletu nad Lomem bylo jeho letadlo zasaženo a zrítilo se. Pilotovi se podarilo vyskocit a na padáku dopadl do zahrady místní školy. Hned se k nemu sebehli místní nemectí obyvatelé a zacali ho lyncovat a nakonec byl zastrelen.
EN
At the end of II. World War II, April 17, 1944 took off his first combat flight only twenty-one-year-old fighter pilot John Halstead Banks III. When crossing over Lom his plane was hit and collapsed. The pilot managed to jump and landed on the parachute in the garden of the local school. The local German people immediately came to him and began to lynch him, he was shot.