page_title: Republic P-47 Thunderbolt
section_title: Operators
hierarchical_section_title: Republic P-47 Thunderbolt / Operators
caption_attribution_description: English: two P-47 Thunderbolts of IIAF over Tehran.
context_page_description: The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt was a World War II-era fighter aircraft produced by the
  American aerospace company Republic Aviation from 1941 through 1945. Its primary armament was eight .50-caliber machine guns, and in the fighter-bomber ground-attack role it could carry five-inch rockets or a bomb load of 2,500 pounds. When fully loaded, the P-47 weighed up to eight tons, making it one of the heaviest fighters of the war. The P-47 was designed around the powerful Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp engine, which was also used by two U.S. Navy/U.S. Marine Corps fighters, the Grumman F6F Hellcat and the Vought F4U Corsair. The Thunderbolt was effective as a short-to medium-range escort fighter in high-altitude air-to-air combat and ground attack in both the European and Pacific theaters.
  The P-47 was one of the main United States Army Air Forces fighters of World War II, and also served with other Allied air forces, including those of France, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union. Mexican and Brazilian squadrons fighting alongside the USAAF also flew the P-47.
context_section_description:  Bolivia 
  Bolivian Air Force (post-war)
   Brazil 
  Brazilian Expeditionary Force, Brazilian Air Force
  85 units 1st Brazilian Fighter Group, 1944–1954           
   Chile 
  Chilean Air Force
   Republic of China
  Republic of China Air Force
   People's Republic of China
  PLAAF
   Colombia
  Colombian Air Force (1947–1957)
   Cuba 
  Cuban Air Force (post-war)
   Dominican Republic 
  Dominican Air Force (1952–1957)
   Ecuador 
  Ecuadorian Air Force (1947–1959)
   France
  Free French Air Force
  French Air Force
   Guatemala
  Guatemalan Air Force
   Iran
  Imperial Iranian Air Force – 50 delivered 1948
   
   Italy 
  Italian Air Force – 100 received 1950
   Mexico 
  Mexican Expeditionary Air Force
  Escuadrón 201
   Nicaragua
  Fuerza Aerea de Nicaragua (provided by the CIA post 1954 action in Guatemala)
   Peru 
  Peruvian Air Force (56 aircraft, July 1947 – 1963)
   Portugal 
  Portuguese Air Force (post-war)
   Soviet Union 
  Soviet Air Force
   Turkey 
  Turkish Air Force – operated 180 P-47Ds from 1948 and 1954.
   United Kingdom 
  Royal Air Force
   United States
  United States Army Air Forces
  United States Air Force
   Venezuela
  Venezuelan Air Force
   Yugoslavia
  Yugoslav Air Force (150 aircraft, 1952)
caption: Two P-47 Thunderbolts of  the Imperial Iranian Air Force over Tehran.
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