@[email protected] to [email protected] • 3 months agoWhat ridiculous history fact is your favorite?message-square112fedilinkarrow-up1155arrow-down12
arrow-up1153arrow-down1message-squareWhat ridiculous history fact is your favorite?@[email protected] to [email protected] • 3 months agomessage-square112fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink42•3 months ago“Mad” Jack Churchill, who fought in the Second World War with a longbow, a basket-hilted Scottish broadsword, and a set of bagpipes.
minus-squareFippleStonelinkfedilink20•3 months agoAllegedly German soldiers said that they didn’t shoot him because they assumed he’d lost his mind, and took pity on him
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•3 months agoYou’d think it’d make them do the opposite, idk about you but I’d be more scared of that guy than regular troops and I’d be gunning for him. “He’s clearly crazy, lord knows what he’ll do.”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•3 months agoThe only confirmed bow and arrow kill of WW2!
minus-squareCaptain AggravatedlinkfedilinkEnglish6•3 months agoAnd after the war he went on to become an early pioneer in surfing!
“Mad” Jack Churchill, who fought in the Second World War with a longbow, a basket-hilted Scottish broadsword, and a set of bagpipes.
And still survived. Legend
Allegedly German soldiers said that they didn’t shoot him because they assumed he’d lost his mind, and took pity on him
You’d think it’d make them do the opposite, idk about you but I’d be more scared of that guy than regular troops and I’d be gunning for him. “He’s clearly crazy, lord knows what he’ll do.”
The only confirmed bow and arrow kill of WW2!
And after the war he went on to become an early pioneer in surfing!