[jslade]

"There were many legends made by the enemies during the First and Second World Wars about the fierceness of Gurkha soldiers. However, the most recent one was reported in 1982 during the war of Britain with Argentina over the Falklands. According to the reporter of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) "The Argentines dropped their rifles and abandoned mortars and machine guns" as soon as the Gurkha soldiers marched forward. The Argentine soldiers were mainly afraid of the famous Gurkha knives called "Khukuri" because they had chopped the heads off many Germans and Japanese in hand to hand combat during the world wars."

Source: http://rip.physics.unk.edu/Nepal/NPE.html

[mrsmith]

V.C. awardee Agansing Rai

"Realising that the gun had to be taken out as quickly as possible, Rai led his men directly across 80 years of ground to the machine gun, and killed three of the four soldiers manning it himself.

Rai and his men then charged a second gun. All but three were killed before they reached halfway, but they managed to knock it out.

Then Rai, with a grenade in one hand and a sub-machinegun in the other, single-handedly attacked and killed four Japanese soldiers firing from a bunker and inflicting heavy casualties on his fellow soldiers.

A spokeswoman for the Victoria Cross and George Cross Association said: ...
"He was very self-contained and quiet, but he had a wonderful sense of humour and enjoyed life greatly." "