Republic F-84: Thunderjet, Thunderstreak, & Thunderflash/A Photo Chronicle

The Republic Aviation Corporation F—84 series, the Thunderjet, Thunderstreak, and Thunderflash was the United States Air Forces’ first Post World War II jet fighter. As a somewhat sad result of this, it has been ignored by most aviation historians and aficionados. It was not the Air Forces’ first operational jet fighter, as that honor went to the Lockheed F—80 which was created during World War II. And it did not receive the glory of the North American Aviation F—86, which followed it in se...