Today I Found Out

The Man Who Fought in WWII With a Sword and Bow (2017x142)

Fecha de emisión: Jun 09, 2017

If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to support our effo→’ War or fending off some orcs on Middle Earth. But when it comes to World War II, such medieval weaponry looks like child’s play next to the technology of the time. A sword isn’t the most likely of defences against rifles and tanks. However, for John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill, nicknamed “Mad Jack,” there was nothing he’d rather arm himself with than a trusty sword and bow. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/09/the-man-who-fought-in-wwii-with-a-sword-and-bow/ Sources: http://www.wwiihistorymagazine.com/2005/july/col-profiles.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/765004.stm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill http://badassoftheweek.com/churchill.html Image Credit: https://www.bigstockphoto.com/ru/image-85910855/stock-photo-medieval-archery%2C-woman-shoot https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ww2_allied_advance_siegfried_line.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:German_troops_parade_through_Warsaw,_Poland,_09-1939_-_NARA_-_559369.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dunkirk_1940_HU1137.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Captured_German_troops_norway.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jack_Churchill_leading_training_charge_with_sword.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_in_Yugoslavia#/media/File:1944_Yugoslavia_liberated_territories.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sachsenhausen_security_perimeter_fence.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill#/media/File:Sir_Winston_S_Churchill.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Airborne_troops_of_%27C%27_Company,_4th_Battalion,_2nd_Parachute_Brigade_descending_on_Megara_in_Greece,_October_1944._NA19340.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/ell-r-brown/18650123954 http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/70-42/galahad.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atomic_bombing_of_Japan.jpg Music from Juked