However, when you look at the complete process of actually getting the weapon into the hands of someone who could use it, and how effective the weapon would be when it got there, one Sten would be a much better deal than ten Liberators. Was a Liberator cheaper than a Sten? At the factory gate price, it certainly was. The Sten while being cheap, was also an effective weapon and had the bonus of using ammunition which was available in occupied Europe (which. What partisans actually needed was something like the Sten gun. In other words, it sounds like the sort of thing which only someone who had no experience actually fighting the Germans would come up with. In the days when people actually went to war with single shot pistols, they generally carried a sword to go along with it after they had fired their one shot, which is not something we see much on the modern battlefield. That’s a lot to ask out of one pistol shot in the modern age. Reloading would take too long to do anywhere other than away from the scene, so that one shot had better be effective. You just might have heard about the Grease Gun sometime?Ī problem that I have with the concept is how would you actually use the thing as intended? Where would you find a lone German soldier that you could walk up to and shoot? And what German soldier would allow an enemy stranger to walk up to him? The other guns he designed for the US were the M2 SMG (nothing came of which) and then at the Guide Lamp Div, GM – another burpgun, the M3/M3A1. Hyde who designed the actual Liberator, was indeed a man “connected with American small arms development during WW2” – which is actually quite an understatement. Who wants to see more about that, read Ralph Hagan’s book ‘The Liberator Pistol’. The G-2 flipped the ball to the Joint Psychological Warfare Committee on March 11, and that’s how the story of the FP-45 started. On Mait was him who referred to Army’s Assistant Chief of Staff (G-2) a memo asking whom to address with a request for weapons and ammunition to be airdropped to the occupied population of Europe. Now, being a Pole I cannot pass the opportunity to stress that the actual idea of making and scattering the Liberators (which is a much later name) came from Polish military attache in Washington, DC, at that time, Col. Thanks for a video on a pistol that most gun guys dismiss out of hand, while it was actually a tremendous example of American ingenuity and productiveness.
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