F-47D “Thundertbolt”

by Malizia Nicola

The sixth title in the Aviolibri records series, with a bilingual text: Italian and English.

This fighter, despite its splendour during World War II, once received by Italy, turned out to be a wartime “surplus” and was fortunately only taken by two A.M.I. units. The author describes the history of the fighter, from its assignment to A.M.I. units to the sad accidents, from the author’s personal experience with the aircraft to the assigned versions, from the jet era with the revitalisation of the Thunderbolt units to the various models of the P-47 created. The volume is enriched with numerous colour photographs (17), black and white (108) profiles and drawings.

Publishing house IBN
Year of publication 2011
Number of pages 136
ISBN 9788875650216
Price 13.90 €

Malizia Nicola

Nicola Malizia was born on 1930, in Nova Siri. He lived directly the tragic events of the Second World War and at the age of 20 he entered the Aeronautica Militare. He then was assigned to the 51° Stormo C.B. in Treviso, where he remained for twenty years. He retired on 1983 and has been writing books since then.