FP-45
A crude single-shot [[handgun]] developed by the United States during [[World War II]]. Cheap and quick to mass-produce, it was meant to be air-dropped in large numbers to insurgents in Axis-occupied areas, for use against the occupation forces.

With its single-shot capacity, poor ergonomics, and unrifled barrel (with consequently short range and sub-par accuracy), each Liberator was expected to be used only once; it would then presumably be discarded in favor of the newly-deceased occupier's weapon.  The [[OSS]] was famously unenthusiastic about the FP-45, preferring to distribute "proper" weapons, and though many were distributed, few records exist of Liberators actually being employed in the field.

h4. See also

* [[List of weapons]]

h4. External links

* "Wikipedia: FP-45 Liberator":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FP-45_Liberator
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