Although I spoke of him before. Fighting Jack Churchill deserves his own separate entry in this list. Unlike the others, Jack is neither famous nowadays nor was he a great conqueror of old. This doesn’t take away any of his awesomeness though.
Biography
Leading a relatively uneventful first years of life, Jack was born in 1912 to English parents in Hong Kong. He graduated from a military academy and used his talents in archery and playing the bagpipe to earn a little money, from for example auxiliary roles in films.
With the coming of the Second World War in 1940, Churchill apparently signed up for the commandos, unaware of what that exactly entailed under the guise of “It sounds dangerous”. But here is where the fun starts. Rather than picking up a gun and start killing them Nazis, Jack chose to keep his trusted arms at his side. That is to say, he went to war armed with bow, arrows and a longsword.
For an example of this awesomeness, Churchill’s unit ambushed a German patrol, the signal to attack was an arrow entering the German sergeant. In 1941, he was the commander of Operation Arrow. A while later he would infiltrate a German garrison in Salerno, Italy with only a corporal to support him. Here, using his sword he captured a whooping 42 prisoners of war and one set of mortar equipment.
In 1944 Jack would lead his commandos through Yugoslavia, raiding Germans and various mischief. During a break, where Churchill was playing his bagpipe when a mortar impacted and killed everyone save our sword bearing hero. He was captured and stored in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
Later that year, he and another officer escaped and ran, unfortunately for them they were captured once more only a few kilometers from freedom. Afterwards it was off to Austria with them. Here he escaped six months later, only to walk 240km (150 miles) to Verona, where he was picked up by American troops. Afterwards he was send to battle Japan in the Pacific theatre, only to arrive just as the atomic bombs fell and that part of the war ended. Thus ending his part in WWII
In 1948 our friend would see combat again, where him and 12 soldiers fought in Palestine and evacuated about 700 Jewish doctors.
In later life he found employment as a military instructor in a land- and air-warfare school in Australia. He became a vivid surfer, designing his own board and became the first person to ride some wave somewhere that I forgot.
In an anecdote, Jack would throw his briefcase out of his daily commuter train. This because he lived right next to the track and this would save him the trouble of carrying the bag all the way home. This to the shock of his fellow passengers of course.
Alas, all good things come to an end and Fighting Jack (which was his nickname by the way) died in 1996 in Surrey, England.
Legacy
Save from being the patron guardian of Vicious&Evil.net, Jack is remarkably unfamiliar to the general public. This much to my dismay, as he is obviously completely awesome. Hence we salute Lieutenant-Colonel Jack Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill and end my heroes review with them.
Although this ends the parade of heroes, there is still one more thing I would like to address, but that will wait till next article.
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