I guess in 1941 the war HAD just begun for American servicemen...Europeans had endured it alone for quite a while...there were lots of cars made in the U.S. in '39 & '40...but only tanks and jeeps in '41-'45..(I was born in May of '39...the final days of the war are still part of my memories, as is the memory of 'where I was' when Roosevelt died.