this is just amazing

In all my years of digesting material about WW2, I have somehow managed to never come across this.

Excerpt:

He [Ed: Jack Churchill] resumed his commission after Poland was invaded, and volunteered for the Commandos after fighting at Dunkirk. Churchill was not sure what Commando Duty entailed, but he signed up because it sounded dangerous. In May 1940, Churchill and his unit, the Manchester Regiment, ambushed a German patrol near l'Epinette, France. Churchill gave the signal to attack by cutting down the enemy Feldwebel (sergeant) with his barbed arrows, becoming the only known British soldier to have felled an enemy with a longbow in the course of the war.[1]

As any former Age of Empires 2 player should know, the longbow IS the signature weapon of the British military, so this shouldn't be that surprising. What is though, is the rest of this guy's life story. Just when you think it is starting to wind down, no! More awesome!

Thanks to the Dauntless Dane for pointing this one out to me :)