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hi. I just read this on tvtropes(a dangerous place to get sucked into on the intertubes) this is about badasses in ww2 and I believe this man takes the cake.
from tvtropes:
Jack Churchill. His more notable exploits include capturing an entire village by ambushing the sentries with his claymore, escaping execution after his capture by claiming to be a relative of Winston's and escaping from Sachsenhausen concentration camp with one of the men who inspired The Great Escape.
now tvtropes is ordered such that the contributers make comments after the initial text much like a internet forum.
Response to the above:
You have to figure that any 20th century soldier who carries a broadsword into combat, and then justifies it by saying "any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed" is going to have a career filled with Crowning Moments Of Awesome.
yes this is about crowning moments of awesome in real life. In response to this some made this response, which made me laugh out loud:
He also remains the only soldier in WW 2 to have successfully killed somebody with a longbow.
this simply baffles me, he lived on to go to one war after another after ww2 and ended up dying in 1996 in england.
obligatory wikilink: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill
(I recommend you to look at the picture in the wiki where his group in landing on the beach.)
which mentions that he even complained about the americans coming into the war and ruining a perfectly good war which could have lasted 10 more years
ok he might be insane but goddamn he makes John Mclane, John Rambo and "dutch" schaefer look like harmless children.
what other badasses have you read about?
from tvtropes:
Jack Churchill. His more notable exploits include capturing an entire village by ambushing the sentries with his claymore, escaping execution after his capture by claiming to be a relative of Winston's and escaping from Sachsenhausen concentration camp with one of the men who inspired The Great Escape.
now tvtropes is ordered such that the contributers make comments after the initial text much like a internet forum.
Response to the above:
You have to figure that any 20th century soldier who carries a broadsword into combat, and then justifies it by saying "any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed" is going to have a career filled with Crowning Moments Of Awesome.
yes this is about crowning moments of awesome in real life. In response to this some made this response, which made me laugh out loud:
He also remains the only soldier in WW 2 to have successfully killed somebody with a longbow.
this simply baffles me, he lived on to go to one war after another after ww2 and ended up dying in 1996 in england.
obligatory wikilink: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill
(I recommend you to look at the picture in the wiki where his group in landing on the beach.)
which mentions that he even complained about the americans coming into the war and ruining a perfectly good war which could have lasted 10 more years
ok he might be insane but goddamn he makes John Mclane, John Rambo and "dutch" schaefer look like harmless children.
what other badasses have you read about?
