content: It's an early model P-47 (call by pilots a Razorback)  made probably in early 43.  The bubble cockpit P-47's  were P-47D's which started to arrive in Europe in early 1944.  While it was a big heavy airplane, (Three feet wider and 4 feet longer with twice the weight of a P-51) it could carry half the pay load of a B-17.  It also had the lowest loss record of all our WW II fighters  3%.  While it couldn't maneuver with a shit, it was fast.  The P-47 was as fast as the Mustang (P-51) had 8 .50 cal machine guns and twice the ammo of a P-51.  The last model of the P-47M had a top speed of just short of 500 miles per hour.  The speed record set by the P-47M stood until 1984 when Darrel Greenmeyer set a new speed record for propeller driven aircraft in a specially prepared Gruman BearCat.