[OKSooner]

Yeah, and from the teasers on TV those planes don’t look like P-47’s either.

[svcw]

I think they started with P47 but ended flying P51s.
I also seem to remember they never lost any bomber they were escorting.
There is a reference to “squeak clean”, personally I don’t think any fly boys in WWII were squeaky clean.

[Freedumb]

I am surprised Hollywood did not put them in jets.

[IYAS9YAS]

Yeah, and from the teasers on TV those planes don’t look like P-47’s either.

They flew those, but were more closely associated with the P-51. The planes in the trailers appear to be the P-51D variant, which I what I've always associated with the Red Tails.