[Travis McGee]

Popski in 1945. Thank Odin he wrote his book before he died of brain cancer in 1950. He was 40# overweight in Egypt when he decided he had to join the British Army, and invent a new kind of warfare by hook or by crook. (He got the hook in Italy.) There was nobody like him, they broke the mold. Spoke 8 languages, etc.

[archy]

There was nobody like him, they broke the mold.

There rarely seems to be but one or two per generation or war, and it's a tossup about which side they'll turn up on. But during the American Revolution, George Rogers Clark pulled off a pretty good Popski-style raid, by virtue of which the upstart colonials gained the later-day Northwest Territories that covered all of the modern states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, as well as the northeastern part of Minnesota. The area covered more than 260,000 square miles.

All with the capture of one solitary river fort, which, of course the British garrison knew couldn't be taken during the February Winter floods. Until Clark and his 172 light infantrymen of the Virginia Militia did it. Pity Popski wasn't around with his Jeeps to give them a ride, but they got 'er done anyway.