When it comes to war, everyone can always think of someone who can become a hero and someone who can become a bear. However, in the battlefield filled with smoke and smoke, people who are bears are also everywhere, but there are still a few who can really survive on their own bear skills. So what I want to talk about today is the strongest "pretend dead man" in World War II, a bear who pretended to be dead and survived in the war by his own ability. Of course, this is survived by ability.
It is not easy to survive on the battlefield by pretending to be dead, because in general, pretending to be dead on the battlefield will be disposed of by the people who clean up the battlefield. In ancient times, in order to prevent the survival of enemy troops who pretended to be dead, there was a policy of counting military merits with human heads. Although it is not possible to count military merits by cutting off people's heads in this way, it is generally necessary to go up and shoot a few shots at the corpses of the enemy troops. Therefore, it is even more powerful to be able to escape the enemy's strafing with pretending to be dead. And in this, today's protagonist has done it. He was a very ordinary paratrooper during World War II. It is because he escaped by pretending to be dead, and he is remembered by the world.
A second-class soldier during World War II, John Steele. I'm not a person who likes to be ahead on weekdays. It may be that I have experienced too many wars and have not suffered too much damage, so I should have accumulated more practical combat experience. Although this person was a paratrooper, he did not seem to have much interest in military merit, so as a veteran with some experience, he was not promoted. This guy usually helps his companions get haircuts, so he's more like a barber in a paratrooper. But no matter what, the paratroopers of that era always had to go to the battlefield.
In 1944, he began his one-jump war of fame. He and his comrades began the battle on the orders of their superiors. So he parachuted. But coincidentally, he did not land on the ground, because he was directly hung by his umbrella on the clock on the church. That being said, isn't this a scene that only appears in movies? But John Steele happened to do it. Do you think that he hung quietly on the bell of the church until the enemy left? No. Although he instigated it, he still did not choose to pretend to die directly on it. He watched his companions being killed by the enemy's guns after landing on the ground, and he was also anxious, so he hurried to find a way to go down and save his companions. But the more anxious he became, the more panicked he became, so he accidentally dropped the knife he used to cut the umbrella rope on the ground. So the enemy found him and began to shoot at him. But the miracle began here, and John Steele not only did not get swept to his own point by the enemy's gun, but also pretended to be dead. Then the enemy also transported him down from the church bell as a corpse.
So after the enemy disposed of the body and threw it, John Steele ran away. Found a safe place to hide. Later, he found his own large army and so on, and took them all the way back to kill the enemy army again.
John Steele has been famous ever since. Because it was precisely because of this incident that his superiors gave him meritorious service, although it was not a particularly amazing achievement. Later, the people of this town commemorated the hero who helped them liberate. So on the bell of the church where John Steele parachuted, an equal proportion of "John Steele" was created on that bell. So there was a parachute hanging on the church to escape the disaster, but I did not expect that this hanging was 74 years old. But in any case, this town is related to this John Steele, so he is still a national hero.