Does anyone know someone who worked for Colt Firearms in the 1940s?

[RWB]

I’m searching for people who worked for Colt Firearms, in the Plastics Division (buttons), in 1942. The purpose is research on mint experiments with plastics.

 

Thanks!

 

[cpm9ball]

I assume you have already tried contacting Colt in Hartford.

 

Chris

[WoodenJefferson]

He's looking for smuggled out plastic cents and fantasy dies

 

Wasn't Olin involved in this?

[RWB]

None were "smuggled." I already know where the dies came from and where they went; also, some of what Colt did and did not do.

 

No, Olin was not involved.

[RWB]

The main research task is to identify who produced what. Almost all of the Judd and other info is wrong.

[cpm9ball]

He's looking for smuggled out plastic cents and fantasy dies

 

Wasn't Olin involved in this?

 

Nope! He's going to be a "button" man for the CIA.

 

Chris

[RWB]

Yep....the "real" story is that the mint was not looking for a substitute for metal in cents in 1942. They were really looking for a way to encase millions of button-sized radios that could be implanted into the brains of captured Japanese and German soldiers and officers. The "wireless" spies would then accidentally escape and return to their homelands. The OSS could then listen in on secret conversations and plan strategy. When the “wireless spy” was no longer needed, an overload signal was sent, and the spy suffered a fatal cerebral hemorrhage.

 

We know this was tested. But evidently there was an error in implantation instructions, and all the OSS ever got to hear were “plopping” sounds and the occasional “flushing” noise. There were also a couple of recorded “Ach! Meine schöne Schweine Esel,“ from an SS officer.

 

PS: There was also an unexplained increase in hemorrhoids among German officers in 1943.

 

[WoodenJefferson]

Brings a whole new meaning to having your finger on the button.

[cpm9ball]

Yep....the "real" story is that the mint was not looking for a substitute for metal in cents in 1942. They were really looking for a way to encase millions of button-sized radios that could be implanted into the brains of captured Japanese and German soldiers and officers. The "wireless" spies would then accidentally escape and return to their homelands. The OSS could then listen in on secret conversations and plan strategy. When the “wireless spy” was no longer needed, an overload signal was sent, and the spy suffered a fatal cerebral hemorrhage.

 

We know this was tested. But evidently there was an error in implantation instructions, and all the OSS ever got to hear were “plopping” sounds and the occasional “flushing” noise. There were also a couple of recorded “Ach! Meine schöne Schweine Esel,“ from an SS officer.

 

PS: There was also an unexplained increase in hemorrhoids among German officers in 1943.

 

The reason this failed so miserably was because all they heard on those radio implants was, "$crew the miserable little Corporal! I don't want to go back. I like it here."

 

Chris

[WoodenJefferson]

Schultz "I see NOTHING!"

[johnny9434]

Shultz " i know NOTHING

[Conder101]

Good luck finding them. They would all be in their late eighties to nineties by now.