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  • WearyTraveler
    I read about those a while ago. Very neat! And pretty cool that they took longer to load than make!
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  • Don McManus
    Ford made a much better Liberator than did GM.
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  • Warbirds
    It sure looks like a GM product!
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  • select-fire
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  • select-fire
    Put this in the pipe and smoke it.. GM done a lot in WWII https://www.military.com/veteran-jobs/career-advice/military-transition/how-gm-divisions-tackled-war-effort.html
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  • Warbirds
    I was just being a wise-ass to get a rise out of you. My apologies on what is a very cool gun and very serious broader topic.
    select-fire wrote:
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  • Don McManus
    select-fire wrote:

    Interesting. The first photo is Henry?s Willow Run plant.
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  • iceracerx
    Don McManus wrote:
    select-fire wrote:

    Interesting. The first photo is Henry?s Willow Run plant.

    That's a might big assumption.


    Original Consolidated plant in San Diego
    A second Consolidated plant in Fort Worth
    Ford Motor Co. at Willow Run, Michigan
    North American Aviation in Dallas
    Douglas Aircraft Co. in Tulsa
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  • rufe-snow
    Had 2 of them, years back. Way before they became, big buck collectors items. Because of their construction, was very dubis about test firing them. Since the barrels weren't rifled. Couldn't even see the point.

    Funny thing about the one, that i bought at a local fun store. Because it was manufactured without a serial number. Some poor deluded soul electro penciled either his drivers license or SS number on it. Nowadays some collector, would probably throw a hissy about that. But at the time, it didn't faze me.

    Interesting, that years later a guy in Southern Calif. Actually wrote a book, specifically about the history and manufacturer of the Liberator pistols. I bought it for S & G. Although I had sold the 2 that I owned, years previous to the book being published.
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  • Ditch-Runner
    we need to make a similar version fly over Chicago and Baltimore, NY and other big problem cities dump them out by the thousands during the middle of a hot summer weekend
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  • rufe-snow
    Ditch-Runner wrote:
    we need to make a similar version fly over Chicago and Baltimore, NY and other big problem cities dump them out by the thousands during the middle of a hot summer weekend



    From what I read in the news. Chicago don't need any Liberators. There up to their ears in High Points. Which is the modern, 21st Century version, of the Liberator. On Monday mornings, when they announce the previous weekends body count. It reminds me of the old Viet Nam days. Instead of the Viet Cong, they got the crips and bloods. Or whatever they call themselves nowadays.
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  • chiefr
    The major differences between a High Point and Liberator are, High Points work and they are simple to operate.
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  • select-fire
    Very typical on this forum which car manufacturer was the greatest. It was a joint effort by the govt that had the folks build for the war effort. Notice the Japs and Germans didn't help us.
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  • Wild Turkey
    Ever hear the phrase, " hotter than a $2 pistol"?

    This was the pistol. Imagine what it felt like after a few rounds!
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  • Don McManus
    select-fire wrote:
    Very typical on this forum which car manufacturer was the greatest. It was a joint effort by the govt that had the folks build for the war effort. Notice the Japs and Germans didn't help us.

    Guide Lamp made the Liberator and the M3.

    Saginaw made the M1 Carbine and the M1919A4 light machine gun.

    AC made the Ma Duece

    Inland made more M1 Carbines than anyone.

    Buick built the M4 Sherman Tank

    and the list goes on as to GM's contribution to the war.

    The production capacity of GM, Ford, Chrylser, (even Studebaker made the Wright Cyclone engine for the B-17 and other aircraft as well as the famous deuce and a half that significantly help the Russians supply their armies) was completely shifted from domestic auto manufacturing to the war effort. All made an impact as directed by the War Production Board.
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  • babun
    Everybody helped the war effect from 1942 to the end.

    My mom was seamstress, making womens dresses.
    The small factory she worked at got a contract to sew helmet liners and harnesses for parachutes.
    The total amount requested was more than the girls could do.
    So they set up a small sleeping room in back of the factory and worked 12 hour shifts.
    Many girls crashed there for a few hours , then went back to work.

    Mom told how, many times the foreman would come onto the factory floor and call out girls names because they did not "punch out" their time cards.

    The standard reply from the girls was "I worked 40 hours , sir".
    He knew that was a lie.

    He would just look at the girls and say "thank you, from the Boys".

    {"The Boys" was a term used for all the men that marched off to war.}
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  • Mr. Perfect
    Didn't see much use in Europe:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CjndIiZyJo
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  • KenK/84Bravo
    The "Liberator," as I am sure much (if not most, here know, ) was designed as a sneak up behind them - shoot them point blank, and take their weapon, weapon.
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  • Mr. Perfect
    Warbirds wrote:
    It sure looks like a GM product!

    :lol::lol:
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  • bs233jl
    Great stories. Thanks. :D
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  • mac10
    there was a company some years back that was makeing repops remember then in the SGN
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  • austin20
    Warbirds wrote:
    It sure looks like a GM product!
    ;)
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