Extrait de la revue aeroplane June 2020
The 57th Fighter Group was thefirst Army Air Forces fighter
unit to enter combat outside the Pacific theatre,
joining the RAF in Egypt just before the Battle of El Alamein.
On 18 April 1943, a squadron of its P-47s
found a large formation of Luftwaffe Ju 52/3m transports
In the ‘Palm Sunday Massacre’ the P-47s
shot down 60 Ju 52s and 15 escorts
Database Republic P-47
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