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There is still not a video game around that can capture all of Mad Jack's 100% REAL WW2 EXPLOITS · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: There are some people that everyone should know about, and
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  Speaker 1: one of those people is Jack Churchill. But before we
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  Speaker 1: get into Jack's story, if you're a fan of the strange, dark,
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  Speaker 1: In 1926, Jack Churchill graduated from one of the UK's
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  Speaker 1: most prestigious military academies called Sandhurst, thus becoming an army officer.
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  Speaker 1: His first assignment was to an infantry unit stationed in Burma,
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  Speaker 1: but when he got there, it was peacetime, so Jack
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  Speaker 1: didn't have much to do. But instead of just sitting
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  Speaker 1: around all day, Jack did what any other restless young
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  Speaker 1: military officer would do, and he mastered the bagpipes, despite
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  Speaker 1: being 0% Scottish. He also took a trip across the
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  Speaker 1: entire Indian subcontinent on his motorcycle, almost entirely on unpaved roads.
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  Speaker 1: But in 1936, despite these incredible side hobbies, He just
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  Speaker 1: wasn't really that interested in being a part of the
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  Speaker 1: military when there wasn't anything going on.
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  Speaker 2: And so he decided to get out.
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  Speaker 1: He moved to Nairobi, Kenya, where he became a newspaper
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  Speaker 1: editor slash male model slash movie extra. During his off time,
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  Speaker 1: he still took his bagpiping very seriously. placing second in
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  Speaker 1: a prominent piping competition in 1938. He also picked up
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  Speaker 1: another hobby, archery, and he became so good at it
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  Speaker 1: so quickly that he was chosen by England to represent
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  Speaker 1: them in the Archery World Championships in 1939. Later that
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  Speaker 1: same year, when World War II broke out, Jack decided,
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  Speaker 1: now's a good time to get back into the army.
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  Speaker 1: So he rejoined the army and he was promptly sent
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  Speaker 1: to France to help defend their borders against a potential
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  Speaker 1: Nazi invasion. But shortly after Jack arrived, Hitler was able
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  Speaker 1: to push through those defenses and he launched a brutal
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  Speaker 1: Blitzkrieg campaign against the allies in France. Blitzkrieg is a
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  Speaker 1: military tactic that's basically an all out attack all at
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  Speaker 1: once with everything you got. So planes, tanks, artillery, infantry,
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  Speaker 1: you just send all of it in an attempt to
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  Speaker 1: overwhelm your enemy before you run out of resources. And
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  Speaker 1: in this case, Hitler's Blitzkrieg was successful. In just six weeks,
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  Speaker 1: they not only invaded France, they conquered it. But during
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  Speaker 1: that six-week battle for France that the Allies ultimately lost,
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  Speaker 1: Jack made a name for himself by employing two particular
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  Speaker 1: weapons that nobody else in World War.
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  Speaker 2: II was using.
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  Speaker 1: He is the only one who used these weapons for
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  Speaker 1: the entirety of World War II. Jack and two other
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  Speaker 1: infantrymen were up on this hill overlooking this town that
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  Speaker 1: was full of Nazis.
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  Speaker 2: And at some point, five Nazis come running out to
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  Speaker 2: the edge of this town And.
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  Speaker 1: They duck behind a wall that's about 30 meters away
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  Speaker 1: from Jack. And one of these Nazis stands up and
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  Speaker 1: quickly crumples to the ground. And his four Nazi comrades
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  Speaker 1: look to see what happened to him. And they see
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  Speaker 1: a dead man on the ground with the back end
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  Speaker 1: of an arrow jutting out of his chest. And that
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  Speaker 1: arrow was fired by none other than Jack Churchill. Because
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  Speaker 1: for the duration of World War II, he didn't carry
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  Speaker 1: a gun. He didn't need a gun. Instead, he carried
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  Speaker 1: a bow and arrow and a long broadsword. although periodically
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  Speaker 1: he would scoop the weapons up off of dead enemy soldiers,
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  Speaker 1: and he would fire those. When asked why he didn't
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  Speaker 1: just carry a gun in the first place, he responded,
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  Speaker 1: any officer that goes into action without his sword is
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  Speaker 1: improperly dressed. From then on, he became Mad Jack, and
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  Speaker 1: his peers loved him, but his leadership hated him. They
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  Speaker 1: said he was setting a terrible example, that no one
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  Speaker 1: should be running around with a sword and a bow
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  Speaker 1: and arrow.
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  Speaker 2: But he was so effective, they let him continue.
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  Speaker 1: Throughout the brutal six-week battle for France, Jack would lead
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  Speaker 1: dozens of these small raids against the Nazis. And he
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  Speaker 1: would just pick them off one by one with his
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  Speaker 1: bow and arrow and with his sword. And in one
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  Speaker 1: particular raid, he got shot through the neck. But he
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  Speaker 1: was so nonchalant about it that when he got back
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  Speaker 1: to base, someone was.
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  Speaker 2: Like, hey, Jack, you're bleeding. And he was like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I am. They were like, well, what happened? He's like, ah,
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  Speaker 2: machine gun.
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  Speaker 1: After the Allies finally lost this battle for France and
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  Speaker 1: were forced to evacuate... They found a diary from one
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  Speaker 1: of the British soldiers, and in it, he talks about
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  Speaker 1: the one thing that motivated him and the other troops
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  Speaker 1: around him. And that was the sight of Mad Jack
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  Speaker 1: running hither and thither with his bow and arrow and
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  Speaker 1: his broadsword. For his bravery in France, Jack was awarded
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  Speaker 1: the Military Cross. After leaving France, Jack heard about this
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  Speaker 1: new unit, the Commandos, that was being stood up to
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  Speaker 1: aggressively sabotage Nazi operations. and they were looking for volunteers.
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  Speaker 1: And Jack didn't know much about what they were going
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  Speaker 1: to do, but they promised combat, and so he was
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  Speaker 1: all for it, and he volunteered. The commando unit would
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  Speaker 1: go on to become the famous British Special Forces, and
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  Speaker 1: the training they put Jack and the other volunteers through
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  Speaker 1: was absolutely brutal, and Jack just loved it.
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  Speaker 2: He loved being in the commandos.
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  Speaker 1: After graduation in 1941, Jack was put in command of
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  Speaker 1: a commando unit that was tasked with going to this
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  Speaker 1: Norwegian town of Vagsøy and taking down a Nazi garrison there.
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  Speaker 1: And so they loaded up into their amphibious landing craft,
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  Speaker 1: and Jack's got his kilt on, and he's got his bagpipes,
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  Speaker 1: and he plays the bagpipes on the entire transit over
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  Speaker 1: to Bogsoi to pump up the commandos. And then Jack's
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  Speaker 1: landing craft was the first to reach the shores, and
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  Speaker 1: when its ramp came down, Jack was the first off,
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  Speaker 1: and he just kept playing his bagpipes, despite the fact
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  Speaker 1: that the Nazis now see them, and they're shooting at them.
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  Speaker 2: So rounds are impacting.
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  Speaker 1: Around him as he's blaring his bagpipes, and only when
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  Speaker 1: he finished his song did he shoulder his bagpipes, pull
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  Speaker 1: out a grenade, he saw some Nazis running along the ridgeline,
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  Speaker 1: he throws a grenade at them, and pulls out his
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  Speaker 1: sword and runs into battle.
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  Speaker 2: In just a few hours, the.
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  Speaker 1: Nazi garrison had fallen, and Jack was awarded his second
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  Speaker 1: military cross. During the Italian amphibious landings in 1943, Jack
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  Speaker 1: again was in charge of a commando unit, and they
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  Speaker 1: were tasked with capturing a Nazi observation post that was
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  Speaker 1: in this town just outside of Salerno. It was well
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  Speaker 1: defended and fortified, and Jack and his men were outnumbered
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  Speaker 1: 20 to 1. So Jack came up with a genius plan.
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  Speaker 1: Instead of using stealth tactics, he broke his small team
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  Speaker 1: into six different groups, and he placed them all around
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  Speaker 1: the outside of this town. And it was nighttime, so
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  Speaker 1: the Nazis did not see them setting up. And then
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  Speaker 1: on Jack's call, he had them all yell out at
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  Speaker 1: the exact same time, Commando! And the Nazis in the
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  Speaker 1: town were so caught off guard by all this yelling
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  Speaker 1: coming from all around them, they assumed a huge force
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  Speaker 1: is coming to take over this town.
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  Speaker 2: And so they went on the defensive.
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  Speaker 1: And so after their big war cry, Jack and his
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  Speaker 1: group are the first to charge down into this town
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  Speaker 1: and Jack and one other guy would actually splinter off
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  Speaker 1: and they would discover this big group of Nazis that
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  Speaker 1: were setting up their mortars. And so Jack and this
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  Speaker 1: guy sneak up behind one of them and Jack grabs
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  Speaker 1: him from behind, holds this sword to his throat and
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  Speaker 1: orders him to tell the rest of the team to surrender.
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  Speaker 2: And so the rest of the team who.
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  Speaker 1: Vastly outnumber Jack and the other guy They turn around
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  Speaker 1: and they see this lunatic wearing a kilt, wielding a sword.
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  Speaker 1: He's got bagpipes slung over his shoulder along with a
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  Speaker 1: bow and arrow.
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  Speaker 2: And they're like, okay, we give up.
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  Speaker 1: Shortly after, the rest of the Nazis in this town
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  Speaker 1: would surrender to Jack and his men. And for his actions,
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  Speaker 1: Jack would be awarded the Distinguished Service Order. In 1944,
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  Speaker 1: Jack was in Yugoslavia with the commandos trying to capture
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  Speaker 1: a strategically valuable location called Point 62.
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  Speaker 2: And when every man in his team was either killed
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  Speaker 2: or severely wounded.
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  Speaker 1: And when Jack had run out of arrows, instead of surrendering,
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  Speaker 1: he pulled out his bagpipes and started playing until a
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  Speaker 1: grenade detonated behind him, knocking him unconscious. The Nazis captured
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  Speaker 1: him and sent him to Berlin to be interrogated because
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  Speaker 1: they believed, because of his last name, Churchill, that he
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  Speaker 1: was connected to or related to the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't, not at all, so they ordered Jack to
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  Speaker 1: be sent to a concentration camp. On his way out
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  Speaker 1: of Berlin, Jack secretly flicked a lit cigarette butt into
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  Speaker 1: one of his interrogator's offices and he lit it on fire,
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  Speaker 1: but nobody knew it was him.
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  Speaker 2: And so Jack arrives at this concentration camp and he's.
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  Speaker 1: Only there for a couple of months before he and
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  Speaker 1: another British military officer managed to escape by crawling underneath
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  Speaker 1: one of the barbed wire fences. They'd slowly burrowed a
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  Speaker 1: tunnel without anybody noticing. And then they jumped down into
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  Speaker 1: this abandoned drainage pipe and they crawled out to freedom
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  Speaker 1: that way. But their freedom would be short-lived because they
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  Speaker 1: only made it a couple of miles before they were
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  Speaker 1: recaptured by the Nazis. And so they were ordered to
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  Speaker 1: go to another concentration camp that was considered much more secure.
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  Speaker 1: But after only having been at this new concentration camp
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  Speaker 1: for less than a year, once again, Jack was able
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  Speaker 1: to escape.
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  Speaker 2: This time, it was because there.
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  Speaker 1: Was a power outage at the camp, and Jack just
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  Speaker 1: put his shovel down and casually walked out the front gates,
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  Speaker 1: and nobody noticed. He walked 150 miles in the treacherous
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  Speaker 1: terrain of the Alps, surviving on vegetables he had stolen
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  Speaker 1: from people's gardens. And then finally, eight days later, he
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  Speaker 1: came across a United States armored division and they took
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  Speaker 1: him in and reconnected him with British troops.
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  Speaker 2: And then he was ultimately sent back to England.
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  Speaker 1: And while Jack was free, he was very frustrated that
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  Speaker 1: the war in Europe was effectively over and he had
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  Speaker 1: missed most of it. And so he requested a transfer
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  Speaker 1: to go out to Burma to fight against the Japanese
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  Speaker 1: in the Pacific theater. But as soon as he got there,
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  Speaker 1: the Americans had just dropped the atomic bombs on Nagasaki
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  Speaker 1: and Hiroshima, Japan.
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  Speaker 2: Abruptly ending World War II.
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  Speaker 1: And when Jack heard about this, he was so disappointed
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  Speaker 1: he would not get to do any more fighting, he
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  Speaker 1: was quoted as saying, ah, if it wasn't for those Yanks,
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  Speaker 1: we could have kept this war going for another 10 years.
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  Speaker 1: Even though the war was over, Jack desperately wanted to
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  Speaker 1: get into combat at.
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  Speaker 2: Least one more time, And so he went to jump
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  Speaker 2: school and.
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  Speaker 1: Qualified as a parachutist at the age of 40. And
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  Speaker 1: with this new qualification, he was assigned to a light
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  Speaker 1: infantry unit, and they were deployed to Palestine to train
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  Speaker 1: their army how to better fight the Arab forces. And
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  Speaker 1: while he was there, he gained even more fame when
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  Speaker 1: he defended a Jewish medical convoy from an Arab ambush.
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  Speaker 2: And he did this all while wearing a kilt.
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  Speaker 1: Another time, he and 12 of his men helped evacuate
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  Speaker 1: seven people from a Jewish hospital that was under attack
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  Speaker 1: from Arab forces. After Palestine, Jack came back to England
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  Speaker 1: and eventually retired from the army. and then begrudgingly took
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  Speaker 1: a desk job within the Ministry of Defense. And every
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  Speaker 1: day on his commute home on the train, he would
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  Speaker 1: take his briefcase and throw it out the window as
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  Speaker 1: they were moving. What he had figured out was if
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  Speaker 1: he threw it at the exact right moment, it would
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  Speaker 1: land in the backyard of his house and he wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: need to carry his briefcase from the station to his house.
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  Speaker 1: But he didn't explain that to any of the other
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  Speaker 1: passengers on the train They just figured there's some crazy
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  Speaker 1: guy who keeps throwing his briefcases out the window. In
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  Speaker 1: his retirement, he also became an extremely talented surfer. And
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  Speaker 1: at one point, he wanted to surf the Severn Bore,
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  Speaker 1: which is this huge wave in southwestern England that nobody
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  Speaker 1: else had surfed before. And locals that were familiar with
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  Speaker 1: this treacherous wave, they cautioned him and said, you really
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't do this.
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  Speaker 2: And he looked at them and he just said, I'll
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  Speaker 2: be all right.
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  Speaker 1: And then he proceeded to be the first person ever
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  Speaker 1: to successfully ride that wave. Jack would ultimately die in 1996.
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  Speaker 1: He was 89 years old.
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  Speaker 2: So that's going to do it, guys.
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