Over a British airfield, Lieut. Ralph Johnson found he could get only one land—ing wheel of his P47 down; a machine-gun bullet from a German fighter had jammed the other. He went back upstairs to ...

He had turned down desk jobs time & again. But despite his deep devotion to flying and fighting, modest, easygoing Colonel Hubert Zemke, of Missoula, Mont., finally decided that this would be his last ...

During World War II, the P-47 Thunderbolt was initially dismissed as too heavy and outdated for modern air combat. German pilots mocked it, and even American commanders considered replacing it. But in ...