The Sedgley OSS is a single-shot, break-action, smoothbore.38 Special pistol which was designed by Stanley M. Haight for the Office of Naval Intelligence. It was meant as a covert operation and assassination weapon in the Pacific Theater .

2022年1月1日 · Here are 5 of the weirdest OSS weapons for your consumption. Related: PIPPA LATOUR: THE WWII SPY TURNED HUMBLE HERO. The Sedgley OSS combined a gun with a glove for one heckuva knockout...

[29]: 101 Throughout the war years, the OSS Research & Development successfully adapted Allied weapons and espionage equipment, and produced its own line of novel spy tools and gadgets, including silenced pistols, lightweight sub-machine guns, "Beano" grenades that exploded upon impact, explosives disguised as lumps of coal ("Black Joe") or ...

2018年1月11日 · OSS guns and blades were intended for simple but effective use. American servicemen going into harm’s way had a variety of ingenious places to hide small, even miniature, compasses for escape and...

2023年2月1日 · MACV-SOG warriors carried an incredible variety of both US-manufactured and foreign weapons on their covert missions, and the High Standard was a mainstay of their arsenal. Some of MACV-SOG’s suppressed weapons, including the …

The OSS head once snuck into President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Oval Office armed with a loaded gun and a bag of sand. As Roosevelt dictated a letter to his secretary, Donovan fired off 10 rounds into the sand; Roosevelt turned with the pungent odor of burnt gunpowder still in the air.

Where weapons and equipment are concerned, many individuals seem to believe that all such items that were used by OSS personnel were made especially for OSS, and, therefore, they are "OSS weapons" or "OSS equipment." In reality, OSS used, whenever possible, items already in the inventories of the military services.

2012年7月9日 · The National World War Two Museum in New Orleans has a Glove Gun in their collection that was issued to an officer of Beach Jumper Unit 7. These commandos faked amphibious landings to divert...

2020年11月17日 · The OSS developed many silent and near-silent lethal weapons during WWII, including a variety of crossbows, dart guns, and even catapults for launching mortar shells. The Little Joe is probably the best known of all of these unusual weapons. During development, it was aptly named the ‘Penetrometer’.

2020年11月28日 · The OSS also issued concealed, sleeve daggers and tiny, hidden, lapel daggers for operatives as last-resort weapons. For special missions requiring nearly-silent action, such as ambushes, assassinations, or night raids, a …