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A little prior to Dunkirk but there is the case of ("Mad") Jack Churchill, the only known member of the British Army to kill someone during WW2 with a longbow:
by tolien 9y ago
A little prior to Dunkirk but there is the case of ("Mad") Jack Churchill, the only known member of the British Army to kill someone during WW2 with a longbow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill#France_.281940.29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill#France_.281940....
- corford 9y agoJesus. Now that's a grandfather I'd have liked to have had. Imagine the stories!
- tolien 9y agoI suspect he’d be like Adrian Carton de Wiart VC ([1]; wounded 9 times during WW1, lost an eye, hand, part of an ear but “Frankly, I had enjoyed the war…” and was involved in the WW2 Norwegian campaign on his 60th birthday) and make no comment whatsoever other than how it was a great adventure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Carton_de_Wiart https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Carton_de_Wiart
- corford 9y agoNot sure. According to Jack Churchill's wikipedia page (worth reading - the long bow is only the half of it), he wrote a book about his exploits.