Post by UK on Jul 27, 2010 7:16:57 GMT -5
The most badass person from your country? Two people are the maximum you can nominate, and then we can (possibly) vote on the most badass.
Alright?
Captain 'Mad' Jack Churchill
In 1940, German commanders leading the push into France received reports of German soldiers found dead with arrows or hacked to death with an English Claymore. Normal weapons in the Medieval century, maybe, but not fighting the Nazis.
'Jack was an expert at the Claymore (not the Scottish version), an excellent bowman and had spent years mastering the bagpipes. He joined the war straight after the invasion of Poland and insisted on taking his sword, bow and arrows and bagpipe.
He joined the commandos, despite not knowing what the hell they did, simply because he heard there would be lots of action.
In another attack Mad Jack and one of his enlisted men managed to sneak up on a pair of German sentries making rounds. He leapt at them, sword in hand and shouted, “haende hoch!” The Germans obeyed by dropping weapons and raising their hands. One sentry was taken back to camp while the other had Jack’s belt wrapped round his throat, and together they continued the rounds. At each guard post his prisoner would say something to lull the guards into complacency, then a mustached-mad-man with a sword would jump out and order them to drop their arms. All in all, the two Brits rounded up forty-two prisoners that night.
In 1944 Jack’s luck and tenacity took a slip when he was ordered into an impossible situation. Most of his squad was killed, and Jack was the last one still alive. He propped himself up against a wall and continued to play the bagpipes until the Germans found him and took him captive. After being hauled to Berlin for questioning, he was sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he was meant to stay until war’s end. He might have done so, but one night the power went out, and Jack was prepared: he had a rusty can and some onions. It was all that he needed. In the darkness he just walked away and made his escape.
The rusty can became the cook pot for the Nazi occupied vegetables he “liberated” on the way. Jack stayed off the road to avoid detection, and held a steady route south until he encountered a column of tanks bearing the white star of the US Army. By the time he stepped out of the brush and snapped out a passable Sandhurst salute he’d been free for eight days and had walked 150 miles.'
Then got angry at the Americans for defeating Japan, because the war could have continued for 'another ten years at least.'
Yes, long post is long. But Mad Jack was mad.
Alright?
Captain 'Mad' Jack Churchill
In 1940, German commanders leading the push into France received reports of German soldiers found dead with arrows or hacked to death with an English Claymore. Normal weapons in the Medieval century, maybe, but not fighting the Nazis.
'Jack was an expert at the Claymore (not the Scottish version), an excellent bowman and had spent years mastering the bagpipes. He joined the war straight after the invasion of Poland and insisted on taking his sword, bow and arrows and bagpipe.
He joined the commandos, despite not knowing what the hell they did, simply because he heard there would be lots of action.
In another attack Mad Jack and one of his enlisted men managed to sneak up on a pair of German sentries making rounds. He leapt at them, sword in hand and shouted, “haende hoch!” The Germans obeyed by dropping weapons and raising their hands. One sentry was taken back to camp while the other had Jack’s belt wrapped round his throat, and together they continued the rounds. At each guard post his prisoner would say something to lull the guards into complacency, then a mustached-mad-man with a sword would jump out and order them to drop their arms. All in all, the two Brits rounded up forty-two prisoners that night.
In 1944 Jack’s luck and tenacity took a slip when he was ordered into an impossible situation. Most of his squad was killed, and Jack was the last one still alive. He propped himself up against a wall and continued to play the bagpipes until the Germans found him and took him captive. After being hauled to Berlin for questioning, he was sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he was meant to stay until war’s end. He might have done so, but one night the power went out, and Jack was prepared: he had a rusty can and some onions. It was all that he needed. In the darkness he just walked away and made his escape.
The rusty can became the cook pot for the Nazi occupied vegetables he “liberated” on the way. Jack stayed off the road to avoid detection, and held a steady route south until he encountered a column of tanks bearing the white star of the US Army. By the time he stepped out of the brush and snapped out a passable Sandhurst salute he’d been free for eight days and had walked 150 miles.'
Then got angry at the Americans for defeating Japan, because the war could have continued for 'another ten years at least.'
Yes, long post is long. But Mad Jack was mad.
