![Welcome To the U.S.A.A.F. Resource Center - Republic P-47 Thunderbolt - A Warbirds Resource Group Site Welcome To the U.S.A.A.F. Resource Center - Republic P-47 Thunderbolt - A Warbirds Resource Group Site](http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/URG/images/p47-8.jpg)
Welcome To the U.S.A.A.F. Resource Center - Republic P-47 Thunderbolt - A Warbirds Resource Group Site
![P-47 Thunderbolt #34 of the 73rd Fighter Squadron, 318th Fighter Group takes off from the USS Manila Bay CVE-61 | laststandonzombieisland P-47 Thunderbolt #34 of the 73rd Fighter Squadron, 318th Fighter Group takes off from the USS Manila Bay CVE-61 | laststandonzombieisland](https://laststandonzombieisland.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/p-47-thunderbolt-34-of-the-73rd-fighter-squadron-318th-fighter-group-takes-off-from-the-uss-manila-bay-cve-61-1.jpg)
P-47 Thunderbolt #34 of the 73rd Fighter Squadron, 318th Fighter Group takes off from the USS Manila Bay CVE-61 | laststandonzombieisland
![P-47D serial 43-25402 "Smokepole" of the 19th FS, 318th FG on the flight deck of aircraft carrier. | World War Photos P-47D serial 43-25402 "Smokepole" of the 19th FS, 318th FG on the flight deck of aircraft carrier. | World War Photos](https://www.worldwarphotos.info/wp-content/gallery/usa/aircrafts/p-47-thunderbolt/P-47D_serial_43-25402_Smokepole_of_the_19th_FS_318th_FG.jpg)
P-47D serial 43-25402 "Smokepole" of the 19th FS, 318th FG on the flight deck of aircraft carrier. | World War Photos
Commemorative Air Force - Now here's something you don't see everyday: P-47 Thunderbolts being catapulted off a carrier! It was #OTD in 1944 that the escort carriers USS Manilla Bay and USS
![Photo] P-47D Thunderbolt of the 318th Fighter Group being ferried to Saipan on Escort Carrier USS Manila Bay is launched instead to avoid an aerial attack by four D3A Aichi “Val” dive Photo] P-47D Thunderbolt of the 318th Fighter Group being ferried to Saipan on Escort Carrier USS Manila Bay is launched instead to avoid an aerial attack by four D3A Aichi “Val” dive](https://ww2db.com/images/5ceb7e6a88828.jpg)