{"id":260025,"date":"2025-08-01T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T20:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-many-p-47-thunderbolts-built\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T06:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T20:00:17","slug":"how-many-p%e2%80%9147-thunderbolts-were-built","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=260025","title":{"rendered":"How Many P\u201147 Thunderbolts Were Built?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt (nicknamed &#8220;Jug&#8221;) was <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2030738\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-most-versatille-aircraft-wwii\/\" >one of the top US Army Air Forces fighter planes of WWII<\/a><\/span>. It is counted among the warplanes produced in the highest numbers, and it saw excellent success in a variety of roles, including air-to-air and ground attack. Republic Aviation (by then part of Fairchild) would go on to build the famous <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"664838\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>A-10 Thunderbolt II<\/span><\/span> (aka the Warthog), which remains in service with the United States Air Force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 15,000 P-47 Thunderbolts were produced during WWII, with a third being lost and their class combat in Central America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,9760,11249,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-republic-aviation","category-republic-p-47-thunderbolt","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260026,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260025\/revisions\/260026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}