after the war the bearcat became a major navy and marine corps fighter aircraft equipping over NUMBER_TOKEN fighter squadrons in the former and a smaller number in the latter still not a single fNUMBER_TOKENf fighter ever performed what it was initially intended to do air-to-air combat now to the united states navy nor any other country that acquired them gave them this use production for the bearcat finally ended in NUMBER_TOKEN and that same year they were withdrawn from american frontline service with the last variants retiring in NUMBER_TOKEN the first and only combat the fNUMBER_TOKENf saw was during the french indochina war on january NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN the uss wyndham bay escort carrier arrived with over NUMBER_TOKEN bearcats to support the french forces then when the war ended three years later the NUMBER_TOKEN bearcats that survived the war were given to the republic of vietnam air force entering service in NUMBER_TOKEN. several fNUMBER_TOKENfs were also supplied to thailand before the decade was over
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