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as they were to be dropped to resistance forces
Was the idea with these "Liberator pistols" to drop them loose but in quantity, over enemy occupied countries, in the hope that at least some would get picked up by those who would use them against occupying forces in an effort to capture better weapons from their occupiers? True a significant number would get lost and a significant number may-be found by the occupiers but by sheer weight of numbers at least some should fall into the hands of those apposed to the occupiers. The pistols that got lost in the drop would not really be a problem and the ones captured by the occupiers would also not really be a problem because the occupiers would already have much better weapons. Would these pistols normally survive being tossed out of an aircraft loose or would they need to be packed into a container and dropped by parachute for them to survive the drop in a useable condition?
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10-05-2017 07:43 PM
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Flying10uk,
They came in a box and ten tounds of 45 acp in the grip. Non rifled barrels, you needed to get pretty close to be effective.
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Yep,
That's the one. That M8 Flare gun and the Liberator along with the other Pencil and flares would make for a great cased display.
I don't recall seeing many of the M8 Flare guns with it's mount. It sure looks Mint in the picture.
Thanks for taking the time and digging it out to share it with me/us.
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CH-P777
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I had a Gecado No 1 smoothbore air gun and I would put a small wad of cotton wool in the breech and a pinch of sugar down the barrel and practice my shotgun shooting at flies in the summer when they came inside. Mum used to do her block when she crunched across the sugar on the kitchen floor. Dad used to think it was funny. He was not so amused when I trimmed the flights on his darts to fit down the bore of a spring gun that I made from the barrel of an old bike pump. It would fire his darts about 20 yards and bury the points deeply into his workshop door. When I was 9 I got into real guns and then the fun really started!
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Jim, thanks for posting the pictures. So would a case of 20 boxed Liberator pistols be dropped out of an aircraft by parachute on an organised supply drop to resistance groups? Or would the cases of 20 pistols be opened up before take-off and single boxed pistols loaded onto the aircraft to be dropped singly and randomly over enemy held territory, without a parachute, please? Many thanks.
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That I don't know, I'm not that old.
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From reading this Wikipedia account of the Liberator, Surely they must be pretty rare. Especially in the condition like Jims.
Taking in to account that many were dumped overboard and many others melted for scrap.
FP-45 Liberator - Wikipedia
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A U.K. dealer did have a U.K. deactivated Liberator pistol for sale a year or two ago but it was very expensive and more than I was prepared to pay.
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