Today I Found Out
The Man Who Fought in WWII With a Sword and Bow (2017x142)
Data de estreia: 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.
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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
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