On this very day, 14 December…

In the year 1909 (a Tuesday): Indianapolis. Indy “Brickyard” is completed. On this day in 1909, workers place the last of the 3.2 million 10-pound bricks that pave the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana (a town surrounded by the city of Indianapolis). Since then, most of that brick has been buried under asphalt, but a one-yard (0.91 meter) original brick strip survives at the finish line. [StrategyPage.com & Wiki]

In the year 1896 (a Monday): Jimmy Doolittle (James Harold Doolittle) was born in Alameda (SF Bay Area), California. Jimmy was an American aviation pioneer. A Reserve officer in the United States Army Air Corps in early 1942, Col. Doolittle was recalled to active duty shortly after Pearl Harbor. He was awarded The Congressional Medal of Honor for personal valor and leadership as commander of The Doolittle Raid, a 16-plane [North American Aviation B25 ‘Mitchells’] squadron that flew from the deck of the USS Hornet, with Doolittle piloting the first bomber off the carrier’s deck. It was a bold, long-range retaliatory air raid on the Japanese main islands, on April 18, 1942, four months after the IJN’s attack on Pearl Harbor.The raid was a triumphant success and a vital morale booster for the United States. Indeed, the shock of the raid bedeviled the Japanese war planners and promptly caused them to make disastrous operational changes that tilted the course of the Pacific War in favor of the U.S. Navy. Doolittle was universally acclaimed as a hero. He was eventually promoted to lieutenant general and commanded the Twelfth Air Force over North Africa, the Fifteenth Air Force over the Mediterranean, and the Eighth Air Force over Europe. Doolittle was promoted to full general (4-star) years after his retirement. He died at age 96 on Sept. 27, 1993 in Pebble Beach, California; buried at Arlington National Cemetery. [StrategyPage.com & Wiki]

In the year 1970 (a Monday): Field Marshal William (“Bill”) Slim (William Joseph Slim) died in London. 1st Viscount Slim, KG, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE, DSO, MC, KStJ [6 August 1891–14 December 1970]. Slim saw active service in both the First and Second world wars and was wounded in action three times, including at Gallipoli in 1915. In the early 1930s Slim also wrote novels, short stories, and other publications under the pen name Anthony Mills. During the Second World War he led the 14th Army, the so-called “forgotten army” in the Burma Campaign/CBI Theater of Operations. After the war he became the first British officer who had served in the Indian Army to be appointed Chief of the Imperial General Staff. From 1953 to 1959 he was Governor-General of Australia; he is today regarded by Australians as an authentic war hero who had fought with the ANZACs at Gallipoli. General Slim was perhaps Britain’s greatest field and area commander in WWII. [StrategyPage.com & Wiki]

 Now take me to this page:

Daytona Coupes for Sale   Cobras for Sale      GT40s for Sale  

Searching the (Cobras For Sale) page: this little-known (and lightning-fast) procedure actually works for just about any page on the Internet:

• For Windows computer users: use “Control-F”… hold down your “Control” key and hit “F” (for “Find”), and a little “Find” dialog box appears. As you type in your word [let’s say it’s ‘Kirkham’ or ‘289FIA’ or ‘SB100’], your cursor will RACE to the first [and second, and third, and so on] occurrence of that word;
• For Macintosh users: use “Command-F”… hold down your “Command” key and hit “F” (for “Find”); your search works precisely as it does for Windows users.

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