1950 DeSoto DeLuxe hood ornament.
The DeSoto (sometimes De Soto) was a brand of automobile based in the United States, manufactured and marketed by the now-defunct DeSoto Division of the Chrysler Corporation from 1928 to 1961. The DeSoto logo featured a stylized image of 16th-century Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto. The De Soto marque was officially dropped 30 November 1960, with over two million vehicles built since 1928.
DeSoto (automobile) in Days of Infamy[]
During the Japanese invasion of Hawaii, Fletch Armitage and his gun crew commandeered an old DeSoto from a Japanese family and used it to move their gun around. The car served them until until it lost three tyres to a machine gun ambush and with no spares, it was stuck where it lay. Its fate was then sealed by a dive bomber whose attack, while it didn't destroy it, knocked it over on its top.
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