This soldier was famous for his weapon choice | Historical Legends Part 3

there are some people that everyone should know about and one of those people is jack churchill but before we get into jack's story if you're a fan of the strange dark and mysterious delivered in story format then you come to the right channel because that's all we do and we upload three or four times every week so if that's of interest to you please invite the like button to come out with you for a nice casual get together and when you're about halfway through dinner start aggressively hard selling your multi-level marketing scheme also please subscribe to our channel and turn on all notifications so you don't miss any of our weekly uploads alright let's get into today's story in 1926 jack churchill graduated from one of the uk's most prestigious military academies called sandhurst thus becoming an army officer his first assignment was to an infantry unit stationed in burma but when he got there it was peace time so jack didn't have much to do but instead of just sitting around all day jack did what any other restless young military officer would do and he mastered the bagpipes despite being zero percent scottish he also took a trip across the entire indian subcontinent on his motorcycle almost entirely on unpaved roads but in 1936 despite these incredible side hobbies he just wasn't really that interested in being a part of the military when there wasn't anything going on and so he decided to get out he moved to nairobi kenya where he became a newspaper editor slash male model slash movie extra during his off time he still took his bagpiping very seriously placing second in a prominent piping competition in 1938. he also picked up another hobby archery and he became so good at it so quickly that he was chosen by england to represent them in the archery world championships in 1939. later that same year when world war ii broke out jack decided now is a good time to get back into the army so he rejoined the army and he was promptly sent to france to help defend their borders against a potential nazi invasion but shortly after jack arrived hitler was able to push through those defenses and he launched a brutal blitzkrieg campaign against the allies in france blitzkrieg is a military tactic that's basically an all-out attack all at once with everything you got so planes tanks artillery infantry you just send all of it in an attempt to overwhelm your enemy before you run out of resources and in this case hitler's blitzkrieg was successful in just six weeks they not only invaded france they conquered it but during that six-week battle for france that the allies ultimately lost jack made a name for himself by employing two particular weapons that nobody else in world war ii was using he is the only one who used these weapons for the entirety of world war ii jack and two other infantry men were up on this hill overlooking this town that was full of nazis and at some point five nazis come running out to the edge of this town and they duck behind a wall that's about 30 meters away from jack and one of these nazis stands up and quickly crumples to the ground and his four nazi comrades look to see what happened to him and they see a dead man on the ground with the back end of an arrow jutting out of his chest and that arrow was fired by none other than jack churchill because for the duration of world war ii he didn't carry a gun he didn't need a gun instead he carried a bow and arrow and a long broadsword although periodically he would scoop the weapons up off of dead enemy soldiers and he would fire those when asked why he didn't just carry a gun in the first place he responded any officer that goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed from then on he became mad jack and his peers loved him but his leadership hated him they said he was setting a terrible example that no one should be running around with a sword in a bow and arrow but he was so effective they let him continue throughout the brutal six-week battle for france jack would lead dozens of these small raids against the nazis and he just picked them off one by one with his bow and arrow and with his sword and in one particular raid he got shot through the neck but he was so nonchalant about it that when he got back to base someone was like hey jack you're bleeding and he was like oh yeah i am they were like well what happened he's like ah machine gun after the allies finally lost this battle for france and were forced to evacuate they found a diary from one of the british soldiers and in it he talks about the one thing that motivated him and the other troops around him and that was the sight of mad jack running hither and thither with his bow and arrow and his broadsword for his bravery in france jack was awarded the military cross after leaving france jack heard about this new unit the commandos that was being stood up to aggressively sabotage nazi operations and they were looking for volunteers and jack didn't know much about what they were gonna do but they promised combat and so he was all for it and he volunteered the commando unit would go on to become the famous british special forces and the training they put jack and the other volunteers through was absolutely brutal and jack just loved it he loved being in the commandos after graduation in 1941 jack was put in command of a commando unit that was tasked with going to this norwegian town of vogssoy and taking down a nazi garrison there and so they loaded up into their amphibious landing craft and jack's got his kilt on he's got his bagpipes and he plays the bagpipes on the entire transit over to vog soy to pump up the commandos and then jack's landing craft was the first to reach the shores and when its ramp came down jack was the first off and he just kept playing his bagpipes despite the fact that the nazis now see them and they're shooting at them so rounds are impacting around him as he's blaring his bagpipes and only when he finished his song did he shoulder his bagpipes pull out a grenade he saw some nazis running along the ridgeline he throws a grenade at them and pulls out his sword and runs into battle in just a few hours the nazi garrison had fallen and jack was awarded his second military cross during the italian amphibious landings in 1943 jack again was in charge of a commando unit and they were tasked with capturing a nazi observation post that was in this town just outside of salerno it was well defended and fortified and jack and his men were outnumbered twenty to one so jack came up with a genius plan instead of using stealth tactics he broke his small team into six different groups and he placed them all around the outside of this town and it was nighttime so the nazis did not see them setting up and then on jack's call he had them all yell out at the exact same time commando and the nazis in the town were so caught off guard by all this yelling coming from all around them they assumed a huge force is coming to take over this town and so they went on the defensive and so after their big war cry jack and his group are the first to charge down into this town and jack and one other guy would actually splinter off and they would discover this big group of nazis that were setting up their mortars and so jack in the sky sneak up behind one of them and chat grabs him from behind holds this sword to his throat and orders him to tell the rest of the team to surrender and so the rest of the team who vastly outnumber jack and the other guy they turn around and they see this lunatic wearing a kilt wielding a sword he's got bagpipes slung over his shoulder along with a bow and arrow and they're like okay we give up shortly after the rest of the nazis in this town would surrender to jack and his men and for his actions jack would be awarded the distinguished service order in 1944 jack was in yugoslavia with the commandos trying to capture a strategically valuable location called 0.62 and when every man in his team was either killed or severely wounded and when jack had run out of arrows instead of surrendering he pulled out his bagpipes and started playing until a grenade detonated behind him knocking him unconscious the nazis captured him and sent him to berlin to be interrogated because they believe because of his last name churchill that he was connected to or related to the prime minister winston churchill he wasn't not at all so they ordered jack to be sent to a concentration camp on his way out of berlin jack secretly flicked a lit cigarette butt into one of his interrogators offices and he lit it on fire but nobody knew it was him and so jack arrives at this concentration camp and he's only there for a couple of months before he and another british military officer managed to escape by crawling underneath one of the barbed wire fences they had slowly burrowed a tunnel without anybody noticing and then they jumped down into this abandoned drainage pipe and they crawled out to freedom that way but their freedom would be short-lived because they only made it a couple of miles before they were recaptured by the nazis and so they were ordered to go to another concentration camp that was considered much more secure but after only having been at this new concentration camp for less than a year once again jack was able to escape this time it was because there was a power outage at the camp and jack just put a shovel down and casually walked out the front gates and nobody noticed he walked 150 miles in the treacherous terrain of the alps surviving on vegetables he had stolen from people's gardens and then finally eight days later he came across a united states armored division and they took him in and reconnected him with british troops and then he was ultimately sent back to england and while jack was free he was very frustrated that the war in europe was effectively over and he had missed most of it and so he requested a transfer to go out to burma to fight against the japanese in the pacific theater but as soon as he got there the americans had just dropped the atomic bombs on nagasaki and hiroshima japan abruptly ending world war ii and when jack heard about this he was so disappointed he would not get to do any more fighting he was quoted as saying ah if it wasn't for those yanks we could have kept this war going for another 10 years even though the war was over jack desperately wanted to get into combat at least one more time and so he went to jump school and qualified as a parachutist at the age of 40 and with this new qualification he was assigned to a light infantry unit and they were deployed to palestine to train their army how to better fight the arab forces and while he was there he gained even more fame when he defended a jewish medical convoy from an arab ambush and he did this all while wearing a kilt another time he and 12 of his men helped evacuate 700 people from a jewish hospital that was under attack from arab forces after palestine jack came back to england and eventually retired from the army and then begrudgingly took a desk job within the ministry of defense and every day on his commute home on the train he would take his briefcase and throw it out the window as they were moving what he had figured out was if he threw it at the exact right moment it would land in the backyard of his house and he wouldn't need to carry his briefcase from the station to his house but he didn't explain that to any of the other passengers on the train they just figured there's some crazy guy who keeps throwing his briefcases out the window in his retirement he also became an extremely talented surfer and at one point he wanted to surf the severin boar which is this huge wave in southwestern england that nobody else had surfed before and locals that were familiar with this treacherous wave they cautioned him and said you really shouldn't do this and he looked at them and he just said eh i'll be all right and then he proceeded to be the first person ever to successfully ride that wave jack would ultimately die in 1996 he was 89 years old so that's gonna do it guys if you found the secret in today's episode let us know in the comments what it is and where you found it so give us the time stamp and if you're the first to do that we'll pin you at the top of the comment section if you enjoyed today's video and you haven't done this already please invite the like button to come out with you for a very casual get together and when you're about halfway through dinner start aggressively hard selling your multi-level marketing scheme also please subscribe to our channel and turn on all notifications so you don't miss any of our weekly three or four video uploads if you want to get in touch with me you can direct message me on instagram or on twitter my username for both platforms is the same it's johnballen416 i also have a ton of content over on tiktok where my username is mr ballen i also have a second 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Length: 11min 59sec (719 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 05 2021

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