OSS Weapons Film - The Small Firefly

Training film on a secret gas tank grenade and how to use it on Japanese vehicles.

[@Grayman58]

The british way . Pour sugar or sand into gas tank .

[@Rockhopper1]

we were taught to pour brasso cleaning fluid in,

[@stephenle-surf9893]

Pour sugar? What if you need it for tea? Seriously. Cheap effective and handy. Makes you wonder what they have come up with since. 🧐😳

[@Rockhopper1]

actually sugar does little and sand is filtered out, the soe found carborundem powder.did the job

[@BaptistJoshua]

OSS did that too. It was called a cacaloube. Something like a rubber glove filled with sand and dropped into the oil.

[@slowdancer5563]

It's a gizmo.

[@ONEIL311]

Why would they put put the truck gas tank opening in the cab? I get it might be to prevent sabotage but couldn’t they just put a lock on it? That’s just weird

[@stefanschleps8758]

OSS were Commando's whose motto today as the SAS is, ''Those Who Dare Win:'' So typically these very brave men would either be dropped behind enemy lines or make their way behind them. Even waiting for the battlefields front line to change into enemy hands so that they were in the right spot at the right time to commit acts of sabotage. This is very dangerous. What you see in only a training film. All other pertinent information would be delivered in code or told to them before hand. Use your imagination. Think like you were there.

[@BobertGubson]

Stefan Schleps That's not even what he was talking about stupid

[@stefanschleps8758]

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[@mondriaa]

hahaha wow that went downhill fast

[@mondriaa]

nothing to do with preventing sabotage just a normal place to place fuel tanks back then, most military vehicles dont have locks, chance of theft or sabotage is low if not very low and the chance of soldiers losing there keys is very high.

[@peterevans8194]

Seems strange they did not develop some sort of firebomb to destroy the vehicle entirely....

[@BaptistJoshua]

You could also wrap a gre n ade in duck tape to keep the clip in the close position, then pull the pin. Inside the gas the duck tape would wear down, and the clip would pop open and *KABLOOEY!*