My Pastor said when he was a child, he watched those planes flying... "Over there!"... toward England, ALL DAY LONG! If ANYTHING, that could have caused the Saints to believe it was Rapture time. However, the longsuffering of God is Salvation! GLORY! "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackneas, but is longsuffering to usward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." 2 Peter 3:8-9!
This "Gandy Goose" cartoon, released in 1943, was shown before the 20th Century Fox live-action film in black-and-white, "Time to Kill" (1942), at a theater near you.
There were little metal cars and trucks and things when I was a little kid in the late 1940s and early 50s. I imagine there were more metal toys before the war though. And I think there may have been a lot of lead in the mixture.
Another "reminder" during World War II that raw materials were necessary for the "war front"- and that EVERYONE was expected to donate to [and/or organize] "scrap metal drives".....
They're still a few in use today, not many but a few. A couple years ago I ran across a site looking for 'obsolete' gun parts & they had standing orders for parts for that age of MG. They were Tough guns, as long as you kept water in the jacket they'd keep firing as long as they had ammo. A friend of mine used to have a pic of him in 'Nam standing over one that the VC had been using. They may not be the latest & greatest but they're Still good workman's tools & can do the job.
