This latest release from Lifelike Decals features three different P-47D's.  This is Part 2 of  a series dealing with the P-47D's.  The P-47D is one of the most famous US built fighters of WW2.  The Thunderbolt was a classic American design.....take a big engine....and build a plane around it and load the wings up with big machine guns.

This decal sheet provides a good variety artwork and markings as you can see in the instruction sheets.  Each plane has some sort of nose art or text or huge amounts of kill markings for a certain famous ace....Lt. Walter A. Grabowski.

The first plane is a P-47D-30-RA bubbletop, serial #44-33240 flown by Lt. 'Ike' Davis of 366 FS, 358 FG in probably May 1945 at Sandhofen, Germany.  This aircraft is overall silver with an orange tail and orange and yellow nose cowl ring.  A large portion of the rear part of the engine cowling is covered in dark blue like a night time sky (and red outline) with white stars and the yellow text "Tarheel Hal".  The prop blades are black with yellow tips and an orange prop hub.  The landing gear doors are white.  There are white stripes on the tail and rear horizontal flying surfaces (stripes provided as decals).  

The second plane is a P-47D-5-RE Razorback, serial #42-8434 flown by Major Henry B. Kucheman of the 354FS, 355FG in early 1944 at Steeple Morden, England.  This aircraft has nose art of a nude angel with the text "Miss Behave" and "Lil Lo".  This plane is overall olive drab with grey undersurfaces and a white (dirty white?) nose cowl ring.  The horizontal tail flying surfaces have white stripes and the prop blades are black with yellow tips.  This aircraft has blue wheel hubs with a white set of wings.  

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