John 'Mad Jack' Churchill

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Sounds pretty badass desu

>>>/r/eddit

weve known about him since the second world war anon, this is like making a thread on mussolini

>>3237073
s-sorry, they never taught me about him in school

>>3236156

>after the war he worked a normal job
>would throw his briefcase out of the train window on the journey home everyday
>always had it again the next day
>one day someone asked him why he kept doing it
>turns out he was throwing it into his garden because he couldn't be bothered to carry it home

>Last confirmed kill with a longbow in combat

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>>3236156
He killed a man with a fucking Longbow OP, that's a far greater accomplishment than anything you'll ever do.

>In 1944, he led the Commandos in Yugoslavia, where they supported Josip Broz Tito's Partisans from the Adriatic island of Vis.[22] In May he was ordered to raid the German held island of Brač. He organised a "motley army" of 1,500 Partisans, 43 Commando and one troop from 40 Commando for the raid. The landing was unopposed but, on seeing the eyries from which they later encountered German fire, the Partisans decided to defer the attack until the following day. Churchill's bagpipes signalled the remaining Commandos to battle. After being strafed by an RAF Spitfire, Churchill decided to withdraw for the night and to re-launch the attack the following morning.

>The following morning, one flanking attack was launched by 43 Commando with Churchill leading the elements from 40 Commando. The Partisans remained at the landing area. Only Churchill and six others managed to reach the objective. A mortar shell killed or wounded everyone but Churchill, who was playing "Will Ye No Come Back Again?" on his pipes as the Germans advanced. He was knocked unconscious by grenades and captured.[23] He was later flown to Berlin for interrogation and then transferred to Sachsenhausen concentration camp

>In September 1944, Churchill and a Royal Air Force officer, (Bertram James), crawled under the wire, through an abandoned drain and attempted to walk to the Baltic coast. They were captured near the German coastal city of Rostock, a few kilometres from the sea.

>>3237839
>In late April 1945, Churchill and about 140 other prominent concentration camp inmates were transferred to Tyrol, guarded by SS troops.[24] A delegation of prisoners told senior German army officers they feared they would be executed. A German army unit commanded by Captain Wichard von Alvensleben moved in to protect the prisoners. Outnumbered, the SS guards moved out, leaving the prisoners behind.[24] The prisoners were released and, after the departure of the Germans, Churchill walked 150 kilometres (93 mi) to Verona, Italy, where he met an American armoured unit.

Abolutely based, does this guy have a movie made about him? This is Holywood-tier stuff

>>3237842
Didn't he signal the start of an ambush by killing the German officer with a Longbow shot