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[โ€“] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (2 children)

"Mad" Jack Churchill, who fought in the Second World War with a longbow, a basket-hilted Scottish broadsword, and a set of bagpipes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Allegedly German soldiers said that they didn't shoot him because they assumed he'd lost his mind, and took pity on him

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

You'd think it'd make them do the opposite, idk about you but I'd be more scared of that guy than regular troops and I'd be gunning for him. "He's clearly crazy, lord knows what he'll do."

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

The only confirmed bow and arrow kill of WW2!