P-47 fighter aircraft at the invasion front, 1944
Ground personnel of the USAAF preparing a P-47 Thunderbolt at an airfield in Normandy, summer 1944.
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The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt was the primary fighter and fighter-bomber aircraft of the USAAF on the Western Front. After D-Day (June 6, 1944), the USAAF rapidly deployed units to provisional airfields in Normandy to provide direct support to Allied ground troops advancing from the beachhead. The P-47 assumed central tasks in tactical air support: attacks on enemy supply lines, troop transports, and fortifications. Jack Lieb’s color footage of these maintenance and armament operations ranks among the rare color documents of Allied air operations during the Normandy phase of 1944.
