Explore the history of Republic P-47D-40-RA Thunderbolt 44-90471, restored as "Hairless Joe," from Peruvian Air…
by Matt Scales On May 12th, 1945, a P-47 took off for a local flight…
Regular readers might remember a story we ran a few years ago which featured the…
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