She is just so Sturdy. Today i had a outstanding day, My primary jug version is the D25 since it's our official 78th Squad P47. Anyway, I was in the same P47 for about 1hr/half defending A50, A53 i think it was LWB. Anyway i had got a couple gv kills, landed, rearmed went to a53 and nailed some more tanks. Then Midwest Mafia came in with there P51s to pork the base.
They came in high, i guess they didn't see me so i dropped my eggs and did a 180 to engage both of them. They proceeded to the base and dropped, i then proceeded to chase down a P51 ( can't recall the pilot

) But he tried to bail and i shot him down at D800 going 450+

Now came the second P51 (
Fryman ) and he was very eager to shoot me down to revenge his squaddie. I had a friendly that gave me a check six because i had lost sight of the second pony... BOOM he is D600 out from me tearing my P47 to hell with the .50 cals. He is scoring hits and i hear loud pings on my jug, i rapidly maneuver to cause an overshoot but the P51 is settled in good. He continues to score hits and i see 3 large bullet holes in my right wing, and a large hole in the upper left section of the cockpit. I finally cause him to overshoot but that didn't last too long because he zoomed over me and attempted to regain my six position but a friendly saved my skin by knocking his right wing clean off it's rooks!

So i'm still a little amazed that my plane has so many bullet holes and i decide to check the structure damage and to my amazement i didn't sustain any part damage at all and i took over 400-500 bullets at D600-800. Talk about tough bird! So regardless of what people say that the jug isn't tough, it has its moments to say the least, and this was one of them.
