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Song Parodies -> "Liberator Gun Crude"

Original Song Title:

"I Put a Spell on You"

 (MP3)
Original Performer:

Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Parody Song Title:

"Liberator Gun Crude"

Parody Written by:

Robert D. Arndt Jr.

The Lyrics

My 800th parody achieved in 7 mos and 21 days!!! The OSS in 1942 initiated a program to supply underground resistance fighters in Europe and Asia with a crude one-shot pistol that was called the ".45 Flare Projector". It was hand-operated and came with comic-book instructions in a watertight package with 10 rounds at a unit cost of just $2.10 each. A million were made in 3 months by General Motors Lamp-Light Division due to their knowledge of stampings. To load the weapon the operator had to manually pull back the breech and drop a .45 round in and close it, so it was loaded. Then after firing at close range would have to use a pencil or a twig/whatever small to remove the hot cartridege and load another one!!! The Germans found these and actually laughed at the design. Their crude Volkssturm weapons program which came later produced far more advanced crude designs!!! The Germans never used them at all AFAIK. They were considered junk. Amazingly in modern times someone made NEW Liberator Parabellums in 9mm (see below with the original)...
Liberator gun crude
for the time

“.45 Flare Projector” new
OSS tryin’
For guerilla fightin’

OSS wanted to try it
Supply the underground
Thought gun would be handy
Comic-book instructions, 10 rounds
($2.10 each to make it was found)

Liberator gun crude
for the time
OSS minds

Was so crude
Was so crude
Was so crude
Hand operated gun
One-shot, with spares
Needed close proximity
Re-loading not fun
(Germans laughed at the gun)

Was crazy
Liberator gun crude
for the time
(yet 1 million made in frenzy)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/M1942_liberator.jpg/300px-M1942_liberator.jpg http://pengun.com/NewImages/9%20mm%20liberator%201.jpg

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Patrick - November 21, 2011 - Report this comment
Saw one of these at a collector show Saturday. Asking price $3500! I remember when they were less than $100 but no one wanted them. Someone is making a reproduction with a rifled barrel and better fitting parts. The website warns not to drill a hole with a specified size bit through the sliding breech plate at the point marked, because if you do, the firing pin might reach the cartridge primer. Very few of the Liberators made it to Europe. Resistance preferred the Sten. The guns stored in England were dumped into the ocean. OSS considered them OK for Philippines and Burma because they would quickly rust away and not cause problems after the war. The only fatality I've heard of attributed to the Liberator was a factory worker who accidentally shot himself while preparing to test fire a sample from the assembly line. Today the cost of the repro would exceed that of a good 1911A1 copy.
Rob Arndt - November 21, 2011 - Report this comment
The Germans produced the MP-3008 as emergency weapon and Gerat Potsdam Sten Mk.II copy- about 28,000 manufactured: http://images.wikia.com/military/images/7/7a/Ap_sg.jpg
David Copper - November 22, 2011 - Report this comment
My dad once owned an old German pistol from the 1920 era, but damn if I could tell ya what it was :(

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