In the movie Midway, on last night, there is the bar scene before the battle begins. Before in fact the ships move out of port. In the bar scene, if you look over the shoulders of the two officers, there is a plastic ship model, red hull, under a plastic canopy behind the bar. What does it look like? Destroyer to me from the angle.
First off, is it accurate to assume that plastic probably 1:350) models of WWII ships existed then or do you think it was Hollywood just adding a prop?