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...Hard-driving Johnny Fitch comes naturally by his love of sports cars. His father was a pioneer builder of horseless carriages in Indiana; his stepfather was president of the Stutz Co., builders of the famed Bearcat. After wartime service as a fighter pilot (a career cut short by an emergency bail-out into Nazi hands), Johnny took up high-speed road racing in earnest...
...American Underslung, so named because its frame was hung from beneath its axles, making the all-aluminum body not much higher than the huge (41½ in.) wheels. Designed by Harry C. Stutz, whose later Bearcat was the sportiest roadster of the '20s, the four-cylinder Underslung cost about...
...with a force of three battalions, but the Thais, supported by Algerians, drove them back. Meanwhile, the main Communist force of ten battalions was snaking through the winding river valleys to the southeast toward the town of Nghia Lo. At dawn French-manned B-26 bombers and Hellcat and Bearcat fighters were roaring off the airfields of Hanoi and Haiphong, a few minutes later were diving between the mist-shrouded peaks surrounding the Nghia Lo basin to plaster the Viet Minh troops with bombs and napalm. Over the town of Nghia Lo, C-47s and three-motored Junkers transports dropped...
...Night: Escape. By evening the Communists, packed in a tight circle, were being dive-bombed and strafed by two Bearcat fighters from Saigon. Then came the tropic darkness, and clouds to obscure the moon. The French thought they had the noose drawn tight. Not until next morning did they find out that one French unit had failed to reach its planned position on the river. Through this gap the Communists had escaped in the night...
...Communists. For four hours, squadrons of French-manned Sherman tanks, each followed by 10 to 15 truckloads of combat infantrymen, paraded through Hanoi, criss-crossing through the streets into every quarter of the city to magnify the appearance of strength. In Saigon, De Lattre ordered 44 U.S. Bearcat fighters, unloaded from the escort carrier Windham Bay, to be towed through the streets in full view of the Indo-Chinese public...