Posted on 08/31/2009 7:53:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Thanks nit. I was also interested in the link to the ‘handguns’ thread. I never knew about the Liberator handguns dropped during WWII! Very interesting.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts
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I imagine the French Resistance found them handy - too bad the Warsaw Ghetto and others in Poland did not have them
The brave French Resistance civilians were great at attacking German tanks in Paris too - Jump right on them - grenades or bottles of gasoline or fueloil right down the hatch
The Liberator :
Stamped sheet steel (simple, crude)
.45ACP cartridge - 1-shot - makes a dandy big hole
General Motors made them - others to I imagine
Small, cheap, disposable
Jump right in.
You know.... I first heard about this clown’s predictions about a year ago... and, I thought. Yeah, right...
Now?? I wish I could dismiss it as craziness... but, honestly?? I see about a 10% chance that he’s exactly right. It wouldn’t take much to convince this Texan to move home and start a new country.
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Yup
That is it!
Unlike that stupid French machinegun the US used in WW! instead of the great BAR - the Liberator actually worked!
Trying to recall the name of that French SMG
It was made with hand-fitted parts - nothing interchanged in the field! It jammed because the magazine was open to dirt in the trenches!
The American brass thought the Germans “could capture some BARS” and copy them !!!
Before Little Big Horn - the Washington brass took CW Spencer repeaters from the troops and made them use .45-70 single-shot Springfield Trapdoor carbines
The Injuns had Henry Civil War repeaters, some Winchester 73s, and some CW Spencer repeaters
The Springfield was a single-shot .45-70 - great for long range accuracy and power - but mucho slooow and unreliable with copper cartridge cases in close combat - and the cartridge case often expanded or jammed - the soldier had to use a special tool to remove the ruptured cartridge case as an Injun rode up with a lever-action .44 and dusted him
Another big goof was Custer’s:
“We will not be needing those Gatling Guns!”
That and underestimating the numbers of Injuns and not controlling his forces properly
The Battle of Greasy Creek - was not a success
[The Battle of Greasy Creek - was not a success]
Reminds me, I’ve been trying to find an entertaining thread without success.
On New Year's Day, 2010, the weather, the FDIC, the Iranians, The Usurper's transfer of intelligence data, his failure to take retaliatory action, and the rise of the superflu will make it clear how the rest of 2010 is going to develop.
If anything, the Russian is an optimist.
There's going to be a lot of available parking space by Christmas, 2010, no matter where you shop.
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Hussy Junior is dominating FR threads
you left out the swine flu......
The French SMG - “Chauchat”.
Eight months ago I would have laughed. Now, it is within the realm of the possible.
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