{"id":67488,"date":"2022-06-18T08:06:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T18:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/retireenews.org\/?p=67488"},"modified":"2025-05-21T22:59:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T22:59:05","slug":"check-six-f-47-era-1947-1954","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/2022\/06\/18\/check-six-f-47-era-1947-1954\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Six &#8211; F-47 Era 1947-1954"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"67489\" src=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2022\/06\/f47flying44-882184.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Check Six - F-47 Era 1947-1954\" class=\"wp-image-67489\"\/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"67491\" src=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2022\/06\/f47flightline.jpg?w=722\" alt=\"Check Six - F-47 Era 1947-1954\" class=\"wp-image-67491\"\/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"67502\" src=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2022\/06\/f47flying44-8821344-88513unk-2.jpg?w=654\" alt=\"Check Six - F-47 Era 1947-1954\" class=\"wp-image-67502\"\/><\/figure>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:12px\"><em>Hawaii Air National Guard photographs<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 199th Fighter Squadron flew the <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryhistorynow.com\/2015\/04\/20\/the-jug-10-cool-facts-about-the-p-47-thunderbolt\/\">Republic F-47 Thunderbolt<\/a> from 1947-1954. Originally known as the P-47 (<em>P for Pursuit<\/em>), the aircraft were redesignated F-47 shortly after the end of World War II. The F-47s were affectionately called &#8220;Jugs&#8221;.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Related Retiree News post: <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/post\/retireenews.org\/45487\">Check Six &#8211; 1941: First Flight: XP-47B Thunderbolt<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:10px\"><em>The appearance of external hyperlinks did not constitute endorsement by Retiree News, this included the linked websites, information, products, or services contained therein. Retiree News did not exercise any editorial control over the information you may find at these locations. Additionally, some of the sites linked to may limit the number of stories you can access without a paid subscription. All links were provided with the intent of meeting the mission of Retiree News.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hawaii Air National Guard photographs The 199th Fighter Squadron flew the Republic F-47 Thunderbolt from 1947-1954. Originally known as the P-47 (P for Pursuit), the aircraft were redesignated F-47 shortly after the end of World War II. The F-47s were affectionately called &#8220;Jugs&#8221;. Related Retiree News post: Check Six &#8211; 1941: First Flight: XP-47B Thunderbolt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":67489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"39630,43130,46486,32488,30471,55430","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12401,12400,12386],"tags":[217,2156,6280,9577],"class_list":["post-67488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1940s","category-1950s","category-check-six","tag-199th-fighter-squadron-199-fs","tag-check-six","tag-jugs","tag-republic-aviation-f-47n-thunderbolt"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85545,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67488\/revisions\/85545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}