World War II from a Child's Point of View
Stories of a secret war waged in Middle Tennessee from late 1941 through 1944, as seen through the eyes of young superheroes and wide-eyed children who were astonished to see candy and apples being thrown to them from tanks, jeeps and half-tracks.
How did Southerners in small farming communities react to the influx of soldiers from every part of the country? Furthermore, how did farmers react to tanks rumbling across their fields of tobacco or corn, scaring cows and sending chickens scurrying in all directions?
Restaurants ran out of food, drugstore lunch counters ran out of ice cream, and traffic was halted for hours while implements of war and hundreds of soldiers marched by.
