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[Closed] friday afternoon random WW2 hero spot

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Bloody Hell

[url= http://www.warhistoryonline.com/featured-article/glorious-bastard-mad-jack-churchill-became-the-only-man-during-wwii-to-kill-an-enemy-soldier-with-an-arrow-fired-from-a-longbow.html ]last man to shoot an enemy with a longbow in WWII[/url]

he exits a landing craft playing the pipes, chucks a hand grenade and charges.

and he only got TWO DSOs!

they seriously don't make 'em like that anymore!


 
Posted : 27/03/2015 3:51 pm
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His exploits in Palestine were even better.

[url= http://daphneanson.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/fighting-jacks-lone-stand-how-british.html ]As I walked along, swinging my blackthorn stick, I grinned like mad from side to side, as people are less likely to shoot you if you smile at them.[/url]

First man to surf the Severn bore too (I may have hallucinated that bit).


 
Posted : 27/03/2015 4:08 pm
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Churchill was said to be unhappy with the sudden end of the war, saying: “If it wasn’t for those damn Yanks, we could have kept the war going another 10 years.”

...not my first choice of dinner guest...


 
Posted : 27/03/2015 4:46 pm

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