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The WWII commando who fought with a broadsword, longbow, and bagpipes

boingboing.net • 13 Jun 2026, 14:41

The WWII commando who fought with a broadsword, longbow, and bagpipes
Jack Churchill after the war

John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill — nicknamed "Fighting Jack" and "Mad Jack" — fought through the entire Second World War armed with a Scottish broadsword, a longbow, and a set of bagpipes. He graduated from Sandhurst in 1926, left the army a decade later to work as a newspaper editor and film extra, then re-enlisted when Germany invaded Poland in 1939. — Read the rest

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