David and Jimmy don't know how to drive Allison's car, which has an automatic transmission, and they claim never to have heard of an "automatic" before. The first mass-produced automatic transmission was introduced by General Motors in 1939, two years before the United States entered World War II.
While it is true that GM introduced the first automatic transmission in 1939, it was only available on GM's most expensive models (Cadillac & Oldsmobile) and was a very expensive option, so I expect that very few cars were so equipped. In addition, they would only be produced for two years before civilian auto production would be suspended in early 1942 "for the duration" of the war, further limiting availability, so that the odds of actually seeing a car equipped with an automatic transmission, let alone driving one, would be almost zero. So I wasn't at all surprised that two 18-year-old sailors wouldn't know how to drive a car equipped with a transmission that they had likely never seen before.
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