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  • History's Badasses: Jack Churchill

    07/07/2016 6:09:02 AM PDT · by Louis Foxwell · 14 replies
    History Things ^ | June 15, 2016 | Elizabeth Lundin
    “Any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed.” – Mad Jack ChurchillPHOTO: Wikimedia World War II swept down onto Europe. The nights were filled with bomber fire, the days with the rata-tata of machine guns. The last thing any German soldier would have expected was to hear the call of a bagpipe and see an arrow whistling through the smoke-filled air to cut down one of his buddies. The last thing anyone would expect would be to see a British soldier charging through no-man’s land, slashing left and right through the fray with a sword.The British soldier’s name was...