The p-47 was able to take legendary amounts of fire without any serious damage,but if you did get a hit on it the usual reason for it to go down was a pilot kill or tailplane area destruction the wings we rent as vulnerable as one might think just from what i have read on the aircraft even a hit on the engine rarely brought the 47 down several lost whole cylinders and returned,as far as the game modeling its OK to me maybe a touch light on the on the amount of d it will accept.
50 cal take a ton to bring it down in the game.