"Madman" Jack, whose full name is John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill, is generally referred to simply as Jack Churchill. Listening to this surname, you know that he is an English nobleman, after all, the family name is also Churchill, but whether there is any connection with the famous Churchill family of the famous Duke of Spencer is unknown. After all, there are various dukes, marquises, and earls in the family, and Jack Churchill's family is a complete countryman, although he is from an aristocratic background, he has not been very mixed, and even the family has to rely on farm work to make a living.
Jack Churchill's family was later lost, and his old father sold the family's land and property, and took the family to the British colonies to find an errand to make a living. It may be this childhood experience, Jack's personality has become very wild, going up the mountain and drilling the forest, nothing to do, the academic performance is not ideal, but in the end he was lucky enough to be admitted to the military school, and it is also a future life.
At that time, some errand in the British army, even if it was stationed in a colonial squatting pit, was better than being a street wanderer. After all, Skolzner, the "most dangerous man in Europe", who had personal experience of street skates, also sharpened his head and drilled into the army, in order to find a stable job.
Jack was able to get through school and was finally recruited into the British army and earned the rank of non-commissioned officer. As for the station of his troops, it is far away in the Burmese colony, which can be said to be poor and remote, poor mountains and rivers, and the vast majority of the children of british aristocrats are not willing to go to Burma even if they are mixed. Fortunately, Jack is stubborn by nature, adventurous, and has been accustomed to living in South Asia since he was a child, and does not care about the harsh environment in Myanmar. During his service in Burma, he also met a group of Scots, who not only learned Scottish bagpipes from them, but also learned Scottish swordsmanship in daily "friendly communication", plus daily outings to hunt, jack's archery skills also improved rapidly.
In 1939, a major event occurred that shook the whole of Britain, when The German Hans, under Hitler's leadership, rubbed Poland, which was known as the sixth army power in Europe, next door to the ground, and then happily split Poland in two with the Soviet Union. Poland, which claimed to be immortal, was once again extinct. But Poland was an ally of Britain and France, especially france declaring war on Germany and sending troops to pressure Germany as early as Hitler's attack on Poland. Because as an ally of France, naturally it could not be left behind, so it recruited troops to deploy to France.
The protagonist of the story, Jack Churchill, is among the British troops stationed in France, and he also carries a Scottish bagpipe, a Scottish sword and a longbow. The friends around him, from the officers to the soldiers, all looked at Jack with surprise and neurotic eyes. After all, what age is this, and is there really someone on the battlefield with cold weapons? The officer repeatedly persuaded Jack and tried to understand what was going on with Jack, and if the guy was not in good spirits, he needed to be sent back to The Country to avoid causing trouble.
As a result, after a round of friendly exchanges, the officer found that Jack was mentally normal, but insisted on refusing to use the rifle, and argued: "Any officer who does not carry a sword is indecent." ", belongs to the typical elderly patients with secondary disease. Finally, each side took a step back, and the officer no longer asked Jack about carrying a cold weapon, and Jack wore a pistol with him for self-defense.
It's just that Jack's luck is not very good, and as soon as he comes ashore, he encounters the German blitzkrieg. Common legend is that Jack used a longbow to ambush the Germans during his retreat, killed a German officer, and captured prisoners. However, according to Jack's own recollection, his longbow was damaged during the retreat, and he did not fire a single arrow.
Although Jack did not show his strength in the first battle, his luck was not very bad, at least he successfully caught the last train of the Dunkirk evacuation and returned to England smoothly. But jack, who returned to England, was sullen, and in order to avenge the Germans for his longbow, he signed up for the British commando.
What was the role of the British Commandos? To put it simply, it is to go deep behind enemy lines to wreak havoc, knock on the logistics of the Germans, bury a home-made mine, cut a telephone line, and even if conditions permit, to make some big news, properly British version of the armed workers behind enemy lines.
Especially after 1941, Hitler led a group of German boys to race on Soviet territory, and the German defenses in the Occupied Europe were greatly weakened, which gave the British commandos an opportunity. Jack's Third Commando was also sent to Norway to destroy the Nazi factory there, and Jack was wounded in this operation, but they succeeded in destroying the Nazi fish oil factory and sinking a 1500-ton German transport ship.
The operation also made Jack famous, and he was promoted to train more commando officers and men for the British Army. In 1943, the German army went downhill, and what could have been a pleasant friction with the Soviet Union turned the situation into a draw. That year the Allies decided to launch a counterattack, so Jack had another job. This time he was to take part in the salerno island landing operation, where the commandos needed to destroy the German coastal artillery positions before the operation.
When Jack jumped out of the grass, brandishing a large Scottish sword and pulling a broken gong to attack the German artillery. All the German artillerymen were in a state of confusion, they even suspected that they had encountered evil spirits, and who would dare to attack the Germans with this thing?
But before the Germans could react, several British soldiers armed with submachine guns jumped out of the grass, and the Defenders of the German Battery were taken prisoner. Jack then did the same and captured a number of Germans in a nearby town. At this point, his reputation became even louder, and even the Germans knew the name of madman Jack. Just by relying on a Scottish sword, participating in World War II is really a hardcore and ruthless person.
For Jack, however, good fortune seemed to have come to an end in 44 years, when he was captured by the Germans while fighting in Yugoslavia. The Germans knew that his surname was Churchill, and they knew that the British newspapers publicly publicized his various heroic deeds, and in the eyes of the Germans, those unreliable deeds must have been made up by the newspapers for his credit, and it was Probably Churchill's relatives who did not run away. He was put in a concentration camp, intending to be used to bargain with the British.
Jack was imprisoned in the Howson concentration camp, where he observed the movements of the guards during the daily release of the wind, patrolling the route, and eventually drawing up a plan to escape. He and a captured British pilot managed to escape the camp through the sewers, but he was unlucky enough to be captured by the Germans as soon as he reached Rostock.
This time the Germans imprisoned him in Austria to prevent him from fleeing further in the direction of the Soviet offensive. Jack managed to escape from prison in 1945, not knowing how he crossed the Alps, but he managed to join the Allies and be saved. Soon after the news of Hitler's suicide came, Jack scolded: "If this damn Yankee had not ended the war, Lao Tzu could have fought for another ten years!" ”
epilogue
Instead of returning to his hometown to spend the rest of his life after the war, Jack took part in various jobs and went to Jerusalem in 1948 to support the Jews. It was not until he officially retired that he returned to London to live a stable life.
References: "The Man Who Fought with Sword and Bow in World War II", "Commando: Britain's Most Elite Fighting Force"