ITT: History is Neato >Irish War of Independence is underway

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>"Mad" Jack Churchill
>Stormed normandy beaches with a Scottish Broadsword and a longbow
>Scored the last recorded kill in battle with a Longbow and Arrow when he shot a german NCO in a village in France
>Before doing this, he told the soldier next to him "See that German? I'm going to shoot him."
>Once walked alone back to a battle torn village to find his sword which he'd lost in melee
>He retrieved it
>He wound up captured and taken to a prison camp, which he escaped alongside an RAF officer
>He and the officer were then recaptured, and sent to a concentration camp
>Jack escaped again, and made his way back to a friendly American line, stealing supplies from Krauts along the way
>When the war in Europe ended he asked to be sent to Japan because "There's still the nips, aren't there?"

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>>2107992
>12 Apostles
Anime when?

>>2107992
>Michael Collins assembles a team of 12 gunmen and calls them the 12 Apostles
Mao was a big fan of Collins!

>the Irish taught the Chinese how to into guerilla war

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>>2108000
>>"Mad" Jack Churchill
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill#Burma_.281945.29
>By the time Churchill reached India, Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been bombed and the war ended. Churchill was said to be unhappy with the sudden end of the war, saying: "If it wasn't for those damn Yanks, we could have kept the war going another 10 years!"[11]

>height of the Second World War
>British crash a destroyer into the docks at St Nazaire, the only place where the largest German battleship Tirpitz could dock on the Atlantic coast
>destroyer disgorges hundreds of commandos who run around the dock blowing shit up and causing havoc
>evacuation ships get destroyed leaving hundreds of pissed off, back against the wall, soldiers stuck on shore
>an entire German division is sent after them
>a massive cohort of German officers, admirals, journalists etc. go to the check out the destroyer wedged into the dock entrance
>time bombs on board active killing all of them
>the dock is rendered unusable for half a decade
>go down in history as "The Greatest Raid".

>>2108218
>In retirement his eccentricity continued. He startled train conductors and passengers by throwing his briefcase out of the train window each day on the ride home. He later explained that he was tossing his case into his own back garden so he would not have to carry it from the station.
Top fucking kek.

>>2108000
Based

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>early 1942
>Allies are getting their shit kicked in all through the East Indies
>one old WW1 vintage tin can American destroyer is responding on its own to a distress call from a convoy that got hit by Japanese aircraft earlier in the day
>USS Edsall spots ships on the horizon
>Japanese ships
>ALL of the Japanese ships
>the Edsall somehow managed to blunder into the fucking Kido Budai
>Kido Budai decides to use the destroyer as target practice for their surface ships
>fails horribly
>two battleships and two heavy cruisers fire over 1300 shells at the single destroyer and hit maybe once for little damage
>all the while the Edsall keeps trying to disengage and goes wildly evasive
>even fires a spread of torpedoes at the Japanese out of spite
>only barely miss the cruiser Chikuma, which promptly freaks the fuck out
>Vice Admiral Nagumo gets royally pissed at the failure of his ships
>finally loses his patience and orders his carriers to sink it with three flights of dive bombers
>the 26 planes finally manage to disable the single destroyer the Japanese have been shooting at for over an hour to no effect
>Japanese resume firing because they
>Edsall finally sinks ten minutes later
>Imperial Japanese Navy calls the whole event a fiasco from beginning to end

Sad part is nobody knows about her. The filename says "HMS Pope" because the Japanese used a picture of the Edsall's sinking as a propaganda piece with that name; the Royal Navy did not have an HMS Pope on their lists and no other 4-piper destroyer was engaged and sunk by Japanese surface forces.