Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 1:35 am Post subject: last use of the long bow
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
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 12:27 am Post subject: Re: last use of the long bow
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. "
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.
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".
Wish it had never been allowed to happen. We would be living on Mars, or somewhere further out, by now.
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 10:18 pm Post subject: weapons
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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