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World War 2
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Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor
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Elder Brooks,An African American,Is 1st local civilian death hit by falling steel at republic
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Evansville Airport Is Leased to republic aviation for a $1 a year
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First Evansville P-47 is flown,The Hoosier Spirt
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p-47s aircraft assembly line begins operation,p-47 D model production will run for 32 months.
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Modification Center begins operations
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P-47s enetering combat in England Europe
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President Roosevelt visits city,tours republic aviation,sees shipyard and ordinance by train.
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5 Thunderbolts have a private air show for republic aviation employees
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Lt. Herbert Fields,a brave man,is first to fly his P-47 carrying a bomb,it worked just fine
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1000th Evansville P47 is completed Named the "Tojo Special"
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p-47s now flying with 2 1000 pound bombs attached
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Backlog of p-47s back to normal as vast ferry movement has taken place,60 pilots on this day
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P-47 loses power over field and glides between tree and house avoding serious injury to anyone.
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Republic Aviuation wins 1st E-Award
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2000th Evansville P-47 completed
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Modification builds water-cooler XP-47 with water cooled Chrysler Engine
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Famed south Pacific P-47 fighter "The Jackie" returns home to Evansville plant for 2 week display
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Tornado hits ciity,Damages several p-47s,warps tail and breaks a hundred blue window panes
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5000th Evansville p-47 completed the "Grandiana" man-hours cut from 23,000 to 6300 per p-47
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Test pilot Wm Moose was killed as he crashed his P-47 into field 3 miles SW of New Harmmony
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14 P-47s given to regional schools and colleges without guns and radios,wings were also offered.
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The IH Plant still contains equipment used in P-47 production by RA,Servel and Hossier Cardinal.
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International Harvester Sells plant and facilities to Whirlpool-Seeger
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Whirlpool seeger is the largest city employer at 5,800 mostly in the former republic aviation plant
