the Republic Aviation Corporation (formerly the Seversky Aircraft Corporation) designed a single-seat monoplane fighter for the U.S. Army Air Corp called the P-35. It was, without a doubt, the granddaddy to the P-47 and the beginning of a great lineage to what would become not only one of the heaviest U.S. single-seat fighter produced, but also the most widely produced fighter in the Army Air Forces during the war. In 1940, the P-43 Lancer leapt off the drawing board and began to
