Anonymous ID: 4c0d20 July 13, 2024, 7:56 p.m. No.21196404   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Mad Jack

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Lieutenant Colonel John “Mad Jack” Churchill had a motto: “Any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed.”

 

He was referring, of course, to the basket-hilted Scottish broadsword he armed himself with during battle — and no, Mad Jack Churchill was not a Viking warrior or a medieval knight.

 

He was an officer in the British Army during World War II who famously wielded archaic weaponry, a longbow, and a sword, at the same time the world was first introduced to the horrendous power of atomic weaponry. Fighting Jack Churchill also carried a bagpipe with him, a talent for which he had previously shown off in a number of films.

 

And despite his eccentricities, Jack Churchill proved himself to be a more than capable fighter, escaping capture twice, earning recognition for killing enemy soldiers with a bow, and capturing 42 German soldiers alongside a Corporal — while Churchill was armed with just his sword.