P-47 With Air National Guard

The Air National Guard operated P-47s between 1946 and 1955. Originally, the post-war ANG units east of the Mississippi were to operate P-47s and those to the west were to fly P-51s. This plan was generally adhered to, although there were exceptions:

The following ANG units operated Thunderbolts:

• 101st Fighter Squadron, Massachusetts ANG
  
  
• 104th Fighter Squadron, Maryland ANG
  
  
• 105th Fighter Squadron, Tennessee ANG
  
  
• 118th Fighter Squadron, Connecticut ANG
  
  
• 121st Fighter Squadron, District of Columbia ANG
  
  
• 128th Fighter Squadron, Georgia ANG
  
  
• 131st Fighter Squadron, Massachusetts ANG
  
  
• 132nd Fighter Squadron, Maine ANG, Dow AFB.
  
  
• 133rd Fighter Squadron, New Hampshire ANG
  
  
• 134th Fighter Squadron, Vermont ANG
  
  
• 136th Fighter Squadron, New York ANG
  
  
• 141st Fighter Squadron, New Jersey ANG
  
  
• 142nd Fighter Squadron, Delaware ANG
  
  
• 143rd Fighter Squadron, Rhode Island ANG
  
  
• 146th Fighter Squadron, Pennsylvania ANG
  
  
• 149th Fighter Squadron, Virginia ANG
  
  
• 153rd Fighter Squadron, Mississippi ANG
  
  
• 156th Fighter Squadron, North Carolina ANG
  
  
• 157th Fighter Squadron, South Carolina ANG
  
  
• 158th Fighter Squadron, Georgia ANG
  
  
• 166th Fighter Squadron, Ohio ANG
  
  
• 167th Fighter Squadron, West Virginia ANG
  
  
• 198th Fighter Squadron, Puerto Rico ANG
  
  
• 199th Fighter Squadron, Hawaii ANG

Sources:

1. American Combat Planes, Ray Wagner, Third Enlarged Edition, Doubleday, 1982.
   
   
2. The American Fighter, Enzo Angelucci and Peter Bowers, Orion Books, 1987.
   
   
3. War Planes of the Second World War, Fighters, Volume Four, William Green, Doubleday 1964.
   
   
4. United States Military Aircraft since 1909, Gordon Swanborough and Peter M. Bowers, Smithsonian, 1989.
   
   
5. The Republic P-47D Thunderbolt, Aircraft in Profile, Edward Shacklady, Doubleday, 1969.
   
   
6. Famous Fighters of the Second World War, Volume I, William Green, 1967.
   
   
7. Thunderbolt!, Robert S. Johnson and Martin Caidin, Ballantine Books, 1958.
   
   
8. Thunderbolt: A Documentary History of the Republic P-47, Roger Freeman, Motorbooks, 1992.
   
   
9. E-mail from Jeffrey Nash on 132nd FS being with Main ANG, not Massachusetts ANG.