Wasn't the sole purpose of the Liberator to provide an effective and inexpensive way for allies to 'easily' obtain very high quality weapons?
Somewhat, they were thought of for use by the 'resistance' in 1942. It was smooth bore and designed for up close and personal use.
I saw one in a kit that was for the French and recovered in a museum. Amazing. Few words.
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The FP-45 Liberator is a pistol manufactured by the United States military during World War II for use by resistance forces in occupied territories. The Liberator was never issued to American or other Allied troops, and there are few documented instances of the weapon being used for its intended purpose; though the intended recipients, irregulars and resistance fighters, rarely kept detailed records due to the inherent risks if the records were captured by the enemy.
General
Dwight D. Eisenhower's staff never saw the practicality in mass dropping the
Liberator over occupied Europe, and authorized distribution of fewer than 25,000 of the half million FP-45 pistols shipped to Great Britain for the French resistance. Generals
Joseph Stilwell and
Douglas MacArthur were similarly unenthusiastic about the other half of the pistols scheduled for shipment to the Pacific. The Army then turned 450,000
Liberators over to the
Office of Strategic Services (OSS), which preferred to supply Resistance fighters in both theatres with more effective weapons whenever possible.
French use of the FP-45 remains undocumented, however a first hand account of an assassination with an FP-45 exists from German military policeman Niklaus Lange. He claimed that there were thousands in circulation in occupied France.
[7] The OSS did distribute a few to Greek resistance forces in 1944. Most of the pistols shipped to Britain were undistributed, and later dumped at sea or melted for scrap metal.
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