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“Mad” Jack Churchill, who fought in the Second World War with a longbow, a basket-hilted Scottish broadsword, and a set of bagpipes.

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The only confirmed bow and arrow kill of WW2!

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And still survived. Legend

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Allegedly German soldiers said that they didn’t shoot him because they assumed he’d lost his mind, and took pity on him

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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.”

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And after the war he went on to become an early pioneer in surfing!

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