eBay: Republic P-47 Thunderbolt

[Wurger]

It can't be excluded that the protection tape is a clear one. Also the MG barrels had the additional metal overlay . So how much it protruded from the wing might have depended on how deep it was screwed in.

 

[michael rauls]

Just a thought. In a couple of those pictures you can see where the hole for the 4th 50 exists but has been patched over and the patching looks pretty flush with the wing and symmetrical. Perhaps on the p47s that were made with 6×50s( assuming those articles I read were acurate) instead of changing the manufacturing process they made them like any other p47 then just patched the hole where the 4th 50 went. If one were to desire to make a few hundred p47s in such a configuration that would seem to be the best way to do it rather than make a change to the wing manufacturing process for a few hundred planes.
So maybe one or two of those pictures are factory 6 gun Thunderbolts...........or maybe not.

 

[Wurger]

That would be the explanation as well.

 

[johnbr]

P-47's lashed on flight deck of USS Block Island (CVE 21). The aircraft are on the forward end of the flight deck, July 13, 1943.
: P-47's lashed on flight deck of USS Block Island (CVE 21). Viewed from the bridge, looking aft, July 15, 1943.
Hooded planes and stores on the hangar deck of USS Block Island (CVE 21). Taken from the after elevator looking forward,
Unloading P-47's from USS Block Island (CVE 21) at Belfast, North Ireland, July 27, 1943.
Photograph Curator

 

[fubar57]

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

[Wurger]

 

[Snautzer01]

Original WWII Photo Pilots Nose Art P-47 Aircraft Fighter Plane Squadron | eBay

 

[Snautzer01]

USAAF P-47 318th FG Okinawa 1945 1 COLOR SLIDE No Photo | eBay

 

[fubar57]

 

[Wurger]

 

[johnbr]

P-47 Thunderbolt covered in plastic coating for shipment overseas. Wearing its seagoing plastic "raincoat," applied by spray, which protects the plane against the weather in transit and is quickly peeled off at its destination. May 1944. WWII planes

 

[Snautzer01]

Orig. US Foto P-47 Thunderbolt Flugzeug Flugplatz SAINT-DIZIER Frankreich 1944 | eBay

 

[Wurger]

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[johnbr]

The wings of this American P47 Thunderbolt were left in tatters after being damaged during the battle against Japan between 1944 and 1945
WW2 photos show kamikaze attacks and crash landings | Daily Mail Online

 

[Snautzer01]

P47 Thunderbolt Peggy Darlin' Nose Art and Ground Crew WW2 WWII 4 x 6 | eBay

 

[Wurger]

The wings of this American P47 Thunderbolt were left in tatters after being damaged during the battle against Japan between 1944 and 1945
WW2 photos show kamikaze attacks and crash landings | Daily Mail OnlineView attachment 558169

I would say that's the F4U Corsair.

 

[johnbr]

Aviation Art

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!