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P-45 Liberator

The FP-45 Liberator was a pistol manufactured for the United States military during World War II for use by resistance forces in occupied territories.







The pistol had its origins in the US Army Joint Psychological Committee and was designed for the United States Army in 1942 by the Inland Guide Lamp Manufacturing Division of the General Motors Corporation in Dayton, Ohio. The army designated the weapon the Flare Projector Caliber 45 hence the designation FP-45. This was done to disguise the fact that a pistol was being mass produced. The original engineering drawings label the barrel as "tube", the trigger as "yoke", the firing pin as "control rod", and the trigger guard as "spanner". The Guide Lamp Division plant in Anderson, Indiana assembled a million of these weapons. The Liberator project took about 6 months from conception to end of production with about 11 weeks of actual manufacturing time. The plant employed about 300 workers.

Design:
The FP-45 was a crude, single-shot pistol designed to be cheaply and quickly mass produced. The Liberator had just 23 largely stamped and turned steel parts that were inexpensive and easy to manufacture. It fired a 45 caliber pistol cartridge from an un-rifled barrel. Due to the un-rifled barrel, maximum effective range was only about 25 feet. At longer range, the bullet would begin to tumble and stray off course. Because of the low quality, it was nicknamed the "Woolworth gun."

Field Use:
The Liberator was shipped in a cardboard box with 10 rounds of 45 caliber ACP ammunition, a wooden dowel to remove the empty cartridge case, and an instruction sheet in comic strip form showing how to load and fire the weapon. Extra rounds of ammunition could be stored in the pistol grip.
After production, the Army turned the Liberators over to the OSS. A crude and clumsy weapon, the Liberator was never intended for front line service. It was originally intended as an insurgency weapon to be mass dropped behind enemy lines to resistance fighters in occupied territory. A resistance fighter was to recover the weapon, sneak up on an Axis occupier, kill or incapacitate him, and retrieve his weapons.
The weapon was valued as much for its psychological warfare effect as its actual field performance. It was believed that if vast quantities of these weapons could be delivered into Axis (German) occupied territory, it would have a devastating effect on the morale of occupying troops. The plan was to drop the weapon in such great quantities that occupying forces could never capture or recover all the weapons. It was hoped that the thought of thousands of these weapons in the hands of the citizens of occupied countries would have a disastrous effect on enemy morale.
In reality, the OSS never saw the practicality in mass dropping the Liberator over occupied Europe, and only a handful were ever distributed. Only the Chinese and resistance forces in the Philippines received the Liberator in any significant quantity. The Liberator was never issued to American or Allied troops and there is no documented instance of the weapon being used for their intended purpose.
The original delivered cost for the FP-45 was $2.40 per unit.



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Aimpoint AB supplies red dot sights, IR laser devices and mounts for hunting, sport shooting, police and military applications. The company strengthened its position as market leader when it was awarded the first multi-year contract ever for red dot sights by the US Army in 1997. Since then, Aimpoint has continued to deliver large quantities of sights to the US Army, French Army, US Airforce, US SOCOM, Swedish Army, Danish Army and Italian Army.
Through this, the company has proven its capability to manufacture and supply large quantities of first class equipment. The Aimpoint sight is also currently in use with Special Forces all over the world and regarded as the standard optical sight in most NATO countries. Aimpoint Sweden AB's manufacturing facility in Sweden is one of the first companies certified according to the new standard SS-EN ISO 9001:2000

The Deer Gun, A Single Shot Pistol

Designed and developed by the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) for clandestine operations.
The Deer gun also referred to as the 'Dear Gun', was a successor to the Liberator pistol developed by the CIA. The single-shot Deer Gun was supposedly intended for distribution to South Vietnamese guerrillas as a weapon against North Vietnamese soldiers invading the South.

Weapon Design-
Weight: Five Ounces
Length: 5-inches
Muzzle Velocity: 1050 Ft/s
Cartridge (ammo): 9 x 19mm Parabellum
The Deer Gun was made of cast aluminum, with the receiver formed into a cylinder at the top of the weapon. The striker protruded from the rear of the receiver and was cocked in order to fire, and a plastic clip placed there to prevent an accidental discharge, as the Deer gun had no mechanical safety. The grip has raised checkering, was hollow and had space for three 9 mm rounds, as well as a rod for clearing the barrel of spent cases. The Deer Gun lacked any marking identifying manufacturer or user, in order to prevent tracing of the weapons, and all were delivered in an unmarked polystyrene box with a series of pictures depicting the operation of the gun, as well as three 9 mm rounds. A groove runs down a ramp on top for sighting. The barrel unscrews for loading and removing the empty casing. A cocking knob was pulled until cocked. The aluminum trigger featured no trigger guard.
The Deer Gun was loaded by removing the barrel and placing a 9 mm cartridge in the chamber. The striker was then cocked, and a small plastic clip placed around the striker to impede the forward motion of the striker to prevent accidental discharge. The barrel was then screwed back onto the receiver. The gun was fired by removing the plastic clip, placing it on the barrel where it would become the sight, and pulling the trigger. At this point the user would take the victim's equipment if opportunity presented itself, and then flee. Later, the user would reload the gun by unscrewing the barrel and ejecting the spent case with the provided barrel rod, and follow the outlined procedure.

History and Disposition:
One production run of 1,000 Deer Guns was made in 1964 as an initial run. Unfortunately for the Deer Gun, the scenario predicted did not occur. Rather than the Vietnam war being a small clandestine war, it became a full scale war where the Deer Gun would not be as useful as foreseen. Some Deer Guns were evaluated in Vietnam, but the fate of the rest is unknown. Some sources have stated that all were destroyed, but some have been discovered on occasion. Most likely they are in the CIA Weapons Vault awaiting use someday.


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