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#1: last use of the long bow Author: rufus,

Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 1:35 am
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hi all,
this is a good read about a actual eccentric/mad british officer fighting in ww2, not only did he kill a german using a english/welsh long bow he also carried a claymore sword into battle!!they dont make them like that anymore....http://www.wwiihistorymagazine.com/2005/july/col-profiles.html

#2: ! Author: ANZAC_Tack, Location: Australia

Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 2:23 am
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excellent article! got 1/2 way through, read more later.

#3: Author: mikwarleo,

Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 8:36 pm
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Jack Churchill

Great article. Enthralling the whole way through.

Highlights for me:

Where he and one NCO took 42 prisoners and escorted them (and all their weapons) to friendly forces!

Walking into an arab firefight in full parade dress smiling:
"I grinned like mad ... as people are less likely to shoot at you if you smile at them."

Endless examples of heroism.

And surfing in Australia after the war.

What a legend.

#4: Re: last use of the long bow Author: Badger-Bag,

Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 12:27 am
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rufus wrote:

hi all,
this is a good read about a actual eccentric/mad british officer fighting in ww2, not only did he kill a german using a english/welsh long bow he also carried a claymore sword into battle!!they dont make them like that anymore....http://www.wwiihistorymagazine.com/2005/july/col-profiles.html

"The first German sentry post, manned by two men, was taken in silence. Churchill, his sword blade gleaming in the night, appeared like a demon from the darkness, ordered “haende hoch!” and got results. "

Smile

hahahaha

Look at it from the german soldats point of view. The darkness might have been full as a tick of OTHER lunatic English blokes, they MIGHT be able to shoot this one dead, but . . . what a good awful wound he might give me, with that toad-poker he is waving about. . . . .Not even the maddest officer could blame a man for giving up to someone smiling, and waving a sword about in the dark. lol.

#5: Author: wolfengang,

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 4:50 am
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haha, gotta love it! yeah... very crazy indeed! maybe the germans didnt feel like fighting.... probably kinda hungry and sick of war.

#6: Author: Badger-Bag,

Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:16 am
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Yeah, really stupid bloody waste of lives and more importantly, those young men ought to have been wandering around europe TOGETHER, finding drinking establishments, and rooting foreign girlies.

"Hey, Hans, it is that mad bloody English again, with his bow and arrows and his bagpipes. Hey there, you mad English, where is your sister you promised me?"

"Hi Fritz, want to drink French Beer with me, we can compare it to REAL beers".

Smile

Wish it had never been allowed to happen. We would be living on Mars, or somewhere further out, by now.

#7: Author: CSO_Talorgan,

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:32 pm
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Have claymores and longbows ever been added to the game?

#8: weapons Author: ANZAC_Tack, Location: Australia

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 10:18 pm
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in the okinowa mod or was it cc3 pacific mod, some lowly partisan type unit mostly had'katana's'a stick with blade on end i believe,jap commanders used samari swords at close range.a russian squad of conscript blood unit had a locally made short swords/long bayonets.

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