jim pastorius posted:So much has been forgotten about the home front and what the whole nation endured. These far away conflicts are more remote, it seems.
I agree fully, there. I guess my layout is my small attempt to remind people. Frankly, I have too many automobiles (though most of trucks, which would be far more likely as commercial vehicles) and I'm thinking of boxing up a few of them and getting some wagon kits and horse figures as my parents say every farm there had horses and nobody had tractors during the war (or beforehand, either).
Both my parents were 7 years old when my layout takes place in 1943. They both remember the time very well, though they probably didn't fully grasp what a lot of it meant. Very little has been written on the effects of WW2 on the kids who lived through it stateside.
