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Miscellaneous => The Sallyport => Topic started by: Sir Patrick on 2014-05-21, 15:33:48
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Saw this on Book of Faces and had to share:
http://m.vice.com/read/the-strange-tale-of-the-british-soldier-who-killed-nazis-with-a-sword-and-a-longbow (http://m.vice.com/read/the-strange-tale-of-the-british-soldier-who-killed-nazis-with-a-sword-and-a-longbow)
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Sounds like a guy I want to party with :)
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Ah yes. Capt "Mad Jack" Churchill.
http://badassoftheweek.com/churchill.html (http://badassoftheweek.com/churchill.html)
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I’d never heard of Lieutenant Colonel John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming “Mad Jack” Churchill before.
He was either brilliant or nuts, whatever the case he was a stud. :o
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Ya my brother talked about him a lot. Nuts but successful.
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Hey, it worked for him; if there ever is a ZA, bullets will run out eventually and we'll need to rely on the tools of yesteryear. Plus, with a longbow, no need for a sound suppressor- no one's gonna hear anything but a faint twang and no one alive at that point is going to immediately recognize the sound until the arrow's already jutting from their body. Heh.
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So now I can bring my sword and bow to WW2 Reenactments?
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But that wasn't even the most balls out thing Mad Jack did on that campaign. One night, he single-handedly took forty-two German prisoners and captured a mortar crew using only his broadsword. He simply took one patrolling guard as a human shield and went around from sentry post to sentry post, sneaking up on the guards and then shoving his sword in their faces until they surrendered. His response when asked about how he was able to capture so many soldiers so easily:
"I maintain that, as long as you tell a German loudly and clearly what to do, if you are senior to him he will cry 'jawohl' (yes sir) and get on with it enthusiastically and efficiently whatever the situation."
Now if that's not hardcore, then nothing is.
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And that is hardcore