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This story has a small something about Allied commandos that is interesting:The Amazing Rusting Aluminum
I've heard that during World War II, commandos were sent deep into German territory to smear mercury paste on aircraft to make them inexplicably fall apart. Whether the story is true or not, the sabotage would have worked. The few-micron-thick layer of aluminum oxide is the only thing holding an airplane together. Think about that the next time you're flying. Or maybe it's better if you don't.
You have to hope that if they did it they didn't smear it using their bare hands. Probably not so good!
That is pretty cool. I knew that Aluminum behaved like that but have never heard of a sabotage mission. It would be very intriguing if true.
Another example of sabotage was by the Jews working in the forced labor camps who were building P-38 pistols. They would cut serrations into the slide stop so that after 100 rounds or so were fired through the pistol, the slide stop would fail causing the slide to continue backwards into the eye of the shooter.
Another example of sabotage was by the Jews working in the forced labor camps who were building P-38 pistols. They would cut serrations into the slide stop so that after 100 rounds or so were fired through the pistol, the slide stop would fail causing the slide to continue backwards into the eye of the shooter.
How did those guns make it past German inspectors? Was it difficult to detect?
The inspectors were under a great deal of pressure to make their quotas and get arms out to the troops. Quality control was obviously lax during the latter days of the war and this happened from 1944 on.
