How is it I never, until now, heard of Mad Jack Churchill? (Wikipedia.)
Shades of Samuel Whittemore.
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4 comments:
This is my kinda soldier. I've read about this guy and his use of the longbow in combat against the Germans. He was the last to use it that way for the British Army. Interesting you should post this now. I just finished reading about ehretreat to Dunkirk in "The Turn of the Tide" by Sir Arthur Bryant, based on the diary of General Sir Alan Brooke. Incredible what they went through.
That Whittemore guy was a baaad man. Wow. I hadn't heard of him.
Thank you for that (and for the Cimmerian website). The world is poorer in badassery than it used to be.
I love that he threw his briefcase from the commuter train each day--into his own backyard so he wouldn't have to carry it home from the station.
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