Fairchild-Republic A-10A 80-0254 United States Air Force and B-17s assigned to base

and B-17s assigned to base units there served in utility and support capacities as the Air Force modernized its fleet

in a striking commemorative World War II paint scheme honoring the legendary 1st Air Commando Squadron

Warsaw — carried immense symbolic weight for its pilots

and represented a clean-sheet American approach to pursuit fighter design — moving beyond the wartime reliance on French SPAD and Nieuport designs to establish a genuinely domestic fighter capability

the “Zappers

Fairchild-Republic A-10A 80-0254 United States Air Force and B-17s assigned to baseThese are 1 72 scale decals for Fairchild Republic A 10A Thunderbolt II 80 0254, assigned to the 357th Fighter Squadron, United States Air Force, in the two tone gray camouflage scheme. The 357th Fighter Squadron part of the 355th Fighter Wing at Davis Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, the spiritual home of the A 10 community operated the Thunderbolt II in the close air support and battlefield air interdiction roles that defined the aircraft's Cold War