Oct. 30th, 2009
This was posted over at the web board of the reenactment group that I'm with.
Lieutenant Colonel John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming "Jack" Churchill, DSO & Bar, MC & Bar (16 September 1906 – 8 March 1996), nicknamed "Fighting Jack Churchill" and "Mad Jack", was an English soldier who fought throughout World War II armed with a bow, arrows and a claymore. He once said "any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed".
Rest of info here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill and it just gets more incredible. If this were a film I don't think anyone would believe it was true.
Lieutenant Colonel John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming "Jack" Churchill, DSO & Bar, MC & Bar (16 September 1906 – 8 March 1996), nicknamed "Fighting Jack Churchill" and "Mad Jack", was an English soldier who fought throughout World War II armed with a bow, arrows and a claymore. He once said "any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed".
Rest of info here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill and it just gets more incredible. If this were a film I don't think anyone would believe it was true.