During WWII there were numerous accounts of Soviet soldiers fighting seemingly after death to hold off the Nazis, one account of a Nazi soldier even showed the fear of the Svoeits that the Germans had-because they fought on even after recieving brutal wounds- which they were sure to die of, the Germans said it was as if they were rising from the dead. One account says a Soviet soldier, whose intestines were dangling out of his body, tied himself to a tree so he could continue to shoot Nazis.
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I can't remember the guy's name, but some Marine during WWII was leading this small group of men to assault some Japanese-held position with his BAR. I think he was wounded a number of times, but the bad ass part was after he ran out of ammo, he kept going and proceeded to just bash two Japanese guys' heads in with the butt of his rifle.
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Another Marine and a machine gunner were trying to take out a number of Japanese on a ridge and like the only real cover they had was a small tree on the side of the road. The machine gunner was set up just to the right of the tree because the corpse of a dead Japanese guy was laying behind it. The other guy, unable to find anywhere to hide himself, is forced to climb on top of the corpse (which he noted was completely filled with maggots because it was swollen). The Japanese corpse's face was eaten away and had beetles and such crawling through the cavities, and since the incoming fire was so close to the guy's head, he had to actually stick his nose in one of the cavities of the skull to keep his head low enough to stay alive.
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In the twelfth-thirteenth century, the Danish king invaded Sweden. The Swedish king put up a big fight but got served. After his death, the Swedish queen kept fighting against the Danes. The Danish king told the Swedish queen that if she gave up now, he would give her and her son amnesty, and let them run away to France or something. So she finally accepts, and the first thing the king does is stab her son and throw him in a fire (alive), and then he has his whole army rape the Swedish queen.
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A former Army D.I once woke up and someone was standing over him with a knife. He reached up and grabbed the mans hand like he was going to give him a handshake, then promptly broke the guys hand. Then went back to sleep.
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A Japanese soldier running at an American tank only armed with a katana; the tank's flamethrower ignited the Japanese soldier, but he kept running at the tank. He proceeded to slash the tank with his sword before eventually dieing. Supposedly the American soldiers were silent for half an hour after this.
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A Roman soldier once was captured by some other group (cant remember which) and saw a cauldron of boiling oil sitting there. They told him they would use it to torture him if he did not tell them what they wanted to know. The roman responded "You dont scare me, Im a Roman." , and proceeded to stick his own arm in and burn it off. The enemies were so impressed/freaked out they let him go.
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ANDERSON, BEAUFORD T. displayed conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty. When a powerfully conducted predawn Japanese counterattack struck his unit's flank, he ordered his men to take cover in an old tomb, and then, armed only with a carbine, faced the onslaught alone. After emptying 1 magazine at pointblank range into the screaming attackers, he seized an enemy mortar dud and threw it back among the charging Japs, killing several as it burst. Securing a box of mortar shells, he extracted the safety pins, banged the bases upon a rock to arm them and proceeded alternately to hurl shells and fire his piece among the fanatical foe, finally forcing them to withdraw. Despite the protests of his comrades, and bleeding profusely from a severe shrapnel wound, he made his way to his company commander to report the action. T/Sgt. Anderson's intrepid conduct in the face of overwhelming odds accounted for 25 enemy killed and several machineguns and knee mortars destroyed, thus single-handedly removing a serious threat to the company's flank.
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A chaplin in Nam was given two bodyguards. One night the they were drivin from one camp to another when their Jeep breaks down. Of course, more bad shit happens when a group of Vietnamese soldiers stumbles upon them. The bodyguards, one armed with a knife and the other with nothing (they had put their guns into the jeep and didn't have time to retrieve them before the enemy arrived) managed to kill all 13 of the soldiers. They threw the chaplin under the jeep and went to town. The bare handed one snapped a guys neck immediately then used the dead man's gun to take care of a few more guys. The one with a knife slit 3 throats before picking up a gun. It was funny because in class one day he was showing his fathers slides and then he came to a pic of a pile of dead bodies with these two guys covered in blood standing on either side of them and all the girls got sicker than hell.
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Perry Saturn saw some guy trying to rape some girl so he went over and beat the guy up. He didn't notice that during the fight he got shot in the neck twice.
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A Navy commander was awarded the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while interned as a prisoner of war of the enemy Japanese in the city of Makassar, Celebes, Netherlands East Indies, in April 1942. Acting instantly on behalf of a naval officer who was subjected to a vicious clubbing by a frenzied Japanese guard venting his insane wrath upon the helpless prisoner, Comdr. (then Lt.) Antrim boldly intervened, attempting to quiet the guard and finally persuading him to discuss the charges against the officer. With the entire Japanese force assembled and making extraordinary preparations for the threatened beating, and with the tension heightened by 2,700 Allied prisoners rapidly closing in, Comdr. Antrim courageously appealed to the fanatic enemy, risking his own life in a desperate effort to mitigate the punishment. When the other had been beaten unconscious by 15 blows of a hawser and was repeatedly kicked by 3 soldiers to a point beyond which he could not survive, Comdr. Antrim gallantly stepped forward and indicated to the perplexed guards that he would take the remainder of the punishment, throwing the Japanese completely off balance in their mazement and eliciting a roar of acclaim from the suddenly inspired Allied risoners. By his fearless leadership and valiant concern for the welfare of nother, he not only saved the life of a fellow officer and stunned the Japanese into sparing his own life but also brought about a new respect for American officers and men and a great improvement in camp living conditions. His heroic conduct throughout reflects the highest credit upon Comdr. Antrim and the U.S. Naval Service.
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In WWII, a German Luftwaffer pilot was caught and apprehended by Canadian troops and sent to a POW Camp in southern Ontario. He escaped and stole a kayak, from there he paddled his way through the great lakes all the way over to New York City. From there he hooked up with German spies to get himself back to England, from there he managed to get to France to hook up with his former unit. He was then shot down over the skies of Britain by Allies AA guns and killed instantly.
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Again in WWII, in an allies POW camp in the South American jungles, an extremely determined U-Boat commander managed to escape and somehow got himself across thousands of miles of ocean to German-occupied-Europe, where he was placed back with U-Boats. Yet again once in the Atlantic, his submarine was sunk and he was captured and placed in a POW camp in southern Arizona. He and the other Germans there managed to build a tunnel system, from there they escaped into the desert. After every single other escapee was eventually caught by local police, the German U-Boat commander remained in the desert, sleeping in various caves and dried ditches for weeks on end. He then attempted to hop a train from Pheonix to the North-Eastern region. One of the train station employees at the ticket booth recognized the accent and notified the police. Once the police began searching the station, the German stabbed and killed one of the officers, stealing his gun, and ended up taking down another 2 officers while wounding three more before he was shot seven times.
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A Canadian solider who was captured during the war; he opposing forces took him away, to their base/trenches/whatever it was, and the Canadians watched from their base/trench/whatever. A few days later, they see him marching back over to the Canadian side again. At first they thought he was a turncoat and was going to kill them all, so they pointed their guns at him ect. When he got back there was a note pinned to the back of his shirt. It
took them a while to understand it as it was written in German. After they finally got the translator to look at it, he started killing himself laughing. "You take him! We can't stand him anymore!"
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A Roman named Cincinnatus; he held a bridge over the Tiber River against a
whole army armed only with a shield and spear while his comrades escaped and destroyed the bridge. As it was about to collapse into the water, Cincinnatus jumped off and swam all the way back to Rome with the enemy throwing spears at him.
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espically the fist two.
Originally Posted by d-quik
whats the picture of anyway... that thing on the back of the trailer?
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