Here is a little taste of my WWII aircraft collection. I have a copy of the video listed below on DVD it's the number 8 dvd out of 24 that I have. It's been a while since I last spoke of my WWII collection and I've added to it since then which includes alot of rare pilot interviews and stories from both sides which was very interesting to say the least. Be warned the video is a little bit graphic in the beginning but not much though. The version I have is also in better quality as well, but it's the same footage shown in the video. The video is called Thunderbolt. It details a mission called "operation strangle" which began March 15, 1944 and it took place in Italy. At 15:25 in the video you'll see and hear the P-47 Thunderbolts fire up so crank your speakers and volume up.
Here's the aircraft DVD collection that this film came out of:
It's on the left in the photo shown above.