A quick search-engine stop verifies Our Host's estimation of this fuselage's nickname.
Some model kits of this fighter almost look like a Dieselpunk kitbash of a period fighter-plane.
And old image that I had saved so many moons ago, myself.

Need an Italian kill for a clean sweep!

Very cool

Ace!

Lessee.. yeah, the canopy needs a rework, glazing rigs in the wrong place, and the windscreen seems a little twisted. The "Jug" hade a very atypical canopy of the period, at least until the later models with the "bubble" canopy. Other wise, a great illo, of onr one of the less recognized fighters of WW II. By the way, did you know that there were a couple of squadrons of P-47's in Italy flown by Brazilians? I think there may have been one from Mexico, too. THE COLONEL

BTW. Back when I was a kid, some time in the mid 50's[57,I think] my family were spending a couple of weeks at the beach [O.C.,Md] and a flight of p-47's buzzed the beach. It seems that the Delaware Air Guard were still flying the beasts at that time. Something that I have never forgotten. THE COLONEL