{"id":29698,"date":"2026-06-07T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/the-oss-spy-pistol-that-saved-a-city\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T15:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T20:45:00","slug":"the-oss-spy-pistol-that-saved-a-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/the-oss-spy-pistol-that-saved-a-city\/","title":{"rendered":"The OSS Spy Pistol That Saved a City"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pYWDGFeI2yQ?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Issued to the OSS in 1944, this Colt 1903 followed Sergeant Frederick Mayer into one of WW2\u2019s most daring espionage missions.<\/p>\n<p>Follow us!<br \/>Email: <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/cg4yPb\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/eepurl.com\/cg4yPb<\/a><br \/>Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RockIslandAuctionCompany\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RockIslandAuctionCompany<\/a><br \/>Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/<\/a><br \/>X: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RIAuction\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/x.com\/RIAuction<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#Colt #WW2History #SpyHistory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issued to the OSS in 1944, this Colt 1903 followed Sergeant Frederick Mayer into one of WW2\u2019s most daring espionage missions. Follow us!Email: http:\/\/eepurl.com\/cg4yPbFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RockIslandAuctionCompanyInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/X: https:\/\/x.com\/RIAuction #Colt #WW2History #SpyHistory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":29699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}