The Man who Fought with a Longbow and a Sword in WWII
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John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill was born in Hong Kong, and graduated from the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst in 1926. He would later earn the nickname “Mad Jack” or “Fighting Jack” for fighting with a longbow, bagpipes, and a sword in World war two.
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More of the Deadliest Men Who Ever Lived
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The Japanese didn't surrender because they were nuked twice. They surrendered because they heard Mad Jack was on his way to the Pacific Theatre.
ChuckNorris V 2
They heard Joe Stalin was coming
That's very funny & probably true... Jack sounded like one very angry & scary dood. I'd cry too if I had to fight him 🙂
@@draqbush74 no, more like chuck norris beta
Lol nice one
Never come to a gun fight with a sword or bow
Mad jack: Hold my bagpipes
i swear to god this is the best comment i ve seen on this video
@@waffi3164 word
BAGPIPES!
Lmao
LMBO( laugh my booty of)
Imagine the shock and confusion for the Germans when they found out someone killed their men with sword wounds and arrows.
That would have caused the germans to take major hits to their moral. Just imagine you lose an entire regiment, spy comes back and tells you how they captured your men with a sword and a bow and arrow. That would break me man. I give my soldiers these state of the art guns, and they lose to a fricken bow and arrow. Thats like going into an MMORPG and you like DUDE I GOT GUNS IM OP HAHA and the level 900 with bow maxed out just one hits your entire army.
Remember arrows can easly pierce bulletproof vest
@@quagsire1249 and they are more stealthy too. It would have it's advantages for sure
Good Lord, man, that’s crazy!
That would rile me up!
@@quagsire1249 Not a modern military plate vest. Since, well, it got plates of ceramic or metal.
But it's moot, as body armor was not really a thing in ww2
Smile at your enemies “they’re less likely to shoot you if you’re smiling” WHAT?!?! He IS mad!
@coc private server ahh, do you mean balkan 2.0
And xenophobic too, imagine german children today watchin these quotes
@@bmrbs2813 how
Well he wasn't called MAD jack for nothing......
@@bmrbs2813 why so seriousss
"Any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed." - You will never get more british than that.
He's spitting fax tho
I would contend that him telling those US soldiers "I'm not coming back a bloody third time" is the most British thing I as a Brit I have ever heard.
Rule britania 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Sounds more like japanese.
Replace "sword" with "tea" and now it sounds british.
Any Gurkha without his khukuri is just a farmer ...
Difficulty : *_HARD_*
His records should be removed he used hacks
Difficulty : *VETERAN*
DIFFICULTY : *NIGHTMARE*
But Mad Jack is a pro gamer
Difficulty: DEATH WISH
During his later years he would take a train home from work. Passengers would be shocked when he opened a window and tossed his briefcase into a garden along the tracks and then he would get off the train, walk home and go out into his garden and pick up his briefcase. He lived beside the tracks and so decided it was easier to throw his case into his garden instead of carrying it home. The train driver was apparently in on it
Daaamn that’s cool
@@capporetto2635 dude. it's made up. some people are just good at writing stories
darkracer125 even if its made up, it still sounds cool
This makes perfect sense. I’ve often thrown my work bag from a moving consist. Heck, jumped off them too even though it’s not ohs etc. the tricky bit is the ballast. It’s like Big Sand and not nice on unexpected ankles. You need to lace your boots decently tight.
Is it an crime to do the same with my wife????
When I first heard about Mad Jack I thought it was a joke. I was blown away to know that this man existed. What a legend.
Thats why i trust them
Canadian soldier who stayed while the Americans ran and left him
legend is an understatement: largest balls in the animal kingdom
yeah sure but hes also a complete psycho tbh
Same
when you’re in the modern era and you haven’t upgraded your longbowman
you have any games on your phone? You deserve more likes
civ 5 ;)
Still cause some damage and got a +1 range
Well, I mean there's a lot of hostile bears, necromancers, sabers, giants,mammoths, dragons, and m'aiq lurking around every forest, so I haven't gone and collected a lot of junk.
do u think this is the man responsible for putting arrows in the guard's knees?
Mad Jack went to the Virgin Islands once.
They are now just called "The Islands".
What did he do to those islands?
You probably don't want to know
@@thewhinchester1543 Let's just say it's something... strange.
Bagpipes,everywhere
he umm
When you hear Churchill.
You know it’s a mad lad
Yeah, Lol
When he retired he became a surfer and made his own board (no joke)
if ubisoft every wanted to make an assassins creed game set during ww2 this is the guy to base it on
you're so right my friend
Omg this is so true
I like it
This needs to happen, like Unity and Syndicate.
Actually, no, because around that time, the Assassins realized they needed to operate in secret to survive
Shame he didn’t see action against the IJA. He was bound to have had at least one sword fight with Japanese officers. It could have been epic.
*arrows the 4 Japanese soldiers standing by the officer.*
*slightly unsheathes sword*
Omae Wa mou Shindeiru
@@ramsesquezada6473 NANI?!?!?
*Duel of the Fates plays loudly*
MJ: For Chivalry men.
IJA Officer: BUSHIDO!!!!
MJ: Haha, now you are speaking my language.
ＳＷＯＲＤ ＡＲＴ ＯＮＬＩＮＥ ＰＬＡＹＳ
Everyone: we should end war and living in peace
Mad Jack: NOOOOOO!!!!
That's gotta be like torture for him
Based mad jack
Mad jack was sundowner from MGRR before it was cool
Mad Jack: *(climbs into the hatch of a Cromwell or Sherman tank)* : "Drive me closer, I want to hit them with my sword!"
This is just a good reference to an SCP.
Why didn't mad jack get ptsd?
He was the trauma
German kid: I want to become bowman!
German veteran: *heavily breathing*
PMJSD
Post Mad Jack Stress Disorder, a.k.a, Mad Jack disease.
Often its not the horror war that is the trauma, it’s the realization that your humanity is only surface level when the chips are down.
The realization that at the end of the day you’re just another animal.
Why does doom guy didn't get ptsd
Because he is the traumatic event
Ha Ha Ha
I feel like his enemies had a certain respect for him and didn't want to kill him. At a base level, everyone respects a high quality badass.
I feel you are right.
The video failed to mention this, but captured German machinegunners were asked why they didnt shoot him when they had a clear chance to do so. They said that they thought he was mentally unwell and took pitty on him.
@@AlexanderHL1919 nice. Thanks for that info kind sir
I feel like they were actually just afraid he'd knock their bullets right back at them with his sword
Yes
People are less likely to shoot at you if you smile at them.
...
I'll keep that in mind when I visit Chicago next week.
This man really went
"Im going demoknight"
Demoknight tf2
DemoknightTF2
Demoknight TF2
Demoknight tf2
demoknight tf2
Someone told him once "never bring a sword to a machine gun fight"
Mad Jack laughed before he march into the bullet storm
He was probably all like: "Hold my beer"
@@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785 ikr
Best thing is after Germany surrendered he got on a plane to Burma and before he got there japan surrendered and he was quoted as saying "if it wasn't for those damn yanks we could have had the war going for another 10 years"
More like: ''Hold my tea''
When the bullets run out, that is when the terror begins.
*Medieval mode enabled*
Henry Badger Tf2?
Dragoncourier 6 yep!
Henry Badger what makes me a good demoman?
Demon night vs SMG snipers and heavies
they should add him in wwII games
You forgot to mention he spent his retirement years surfing in Australia
This man and the guy who was trapped on an island and thought WW2 was still going on need to have a battle.
The guy that was trapped on an island that thought the war hadn’t ended yet, was actually a Japanese soldier found in Papua New Guinea 20 years after the war had finished. So would make sense that these 2 should fight
@@leightonbailey5169 Are you ok?, the japanese was Hiroo Onoda and hes was in the Philippines stuck with 3 other japanese it actually took 20 years for him to surrender just because he thought japan would still keep fighting to the last
@@isislikesyou8605 There were others like him man, not just Hiroo Onoda
@@isislikesyou8605 there are more soldiers than Onoda that are stranded in remote areas like him,
"Finally, worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary!"
“Surviving on vegetables he had... liberated from the gardens” lmao
How Americans "liberate" The middle east
That line killed me
@@Samuel-kz7ow
Ouchy Wouchy This Boy is Grouchy
🙅♂️
Smerky merky ok great
This guy knew the stealth archer build is op. Hes way ahead of his time.
@TypeLuo,he should have used a javelin!
What! You guys don't know about the best method?
We call it....
The shortbow strategy...
It fires 24 shots a second each dealing 72 damage and 8 AP points
I think going demoknight is good
"Stealth?" He didnt use that
@@ceciliatavarez5655 demoknight with the huntsman
Mad Jack deserves a movie and I would love to watch that
That will be epic
*When all your friends have guns, but you dont have enough money to upgrade your charachter:*
Lol
That is me my friend has robux and i don't
"They have guns, and you have a sword."
"THEN IT IS A FAIR FIGHT."
character*
I was on edge throughout the end of the video because I thought he was going to die, thank god he didn’t. Anyway, amazing job with the video as always. This channel just keeps getting better.
Hes f****** Legolas
WW 1 and WW 2 Of course he didn't die! He's a bloody Scotsman!
He died in 1996
I felt exactly the same way!
WW 1 and WW 2 we need more men like him, then again it's best there is one of him☻
"If it wasn't for the yanks we could've kept the war going for another 10 years"
that's the spirit my man
Video Clips he should have join the Vietnam war or the Korean War
@@xyoojmonsta8150 Korea maybe, but his body would've given up on him way before he could've joined Vietnam, though it's badass to picture him as an advisor/occasional fighter for the South Vietnamese
My football coach would love this attitude.
Yeah but then there would have been way more casualties
He'd probably love the smell of napalm in the morning
Gets shot in the neck.... Soldier oh what happened???!!! Mad jack: "oh it was just a german machine gun".
He's a trained medieval archer. I totally get why he used those weapons lol.
he played that old 360 game, 'Chilvary' or however you say it for eight years, and holdfast for five.
Holy cow. Why hasn't anyone in Hollywood heard of this? This would make an insanely good movie. Just title it: Mad Jack.
MrStrikecentral yeah right! My thoughts!
MrStrikecentral it should happen I would pay to watch it
Tom hanks!
MrStrikecentral
It even sounds like a Quentin Tarantino film
igee, Louis, both of your comments made me laugh. Could you imagine Tom Hanks in a Quintin Tarantino film? LOL
Surviving on vegetables he “liberated” from gardens lol
lol
lmao
Saying it like it was the last plan dutch had. (Geddit?)
Have a cup of libertea
Tactically acquired*
When people ask you "what is Chaotic neutral/good?" send them this video
LMAOOOO
This guy was pissed at the Americans because he wanted the war to last another 10 years so he could keep killing lolololol
Lololol
@Mr Beast fake Mrbeast
I shall punish fake Mr. beats by saying Ni
NI
NI NI
apparently it's illegal to liberate vegetables from your local supermarket.
Slave traders want something in exchange for liberating the vegetables...
XD
supermarket veges are traitors unworthy of liberating
Not if you don't fight for their rights and freedom
I bet if you try it with your broadsword and longbow while wearing a kilt and a giant ear to ear grin the supermarket staff will give you a pass.
Aw, you forgot to mention the part where he asked the German prisoners he captured why they didn't shoot him and they said they thought he was completely crazy
I mean, the man was crazy. What sane person runs into battle with a long bow, broad sword, and bagpipes?
Are you thinking of Bill Millen, who came ashore on D-Day playing the pipes?
+howard baxter What sane person charges into a battle with said equipment against a fortification defended with Karabiners, STGs, MPs and Mags?
Cirno Sama A soldier... BUT A BOW AND ARROW!
there is a picture of him on dday with his sword apparently
Germans: you can’t defeat us!
The British: I know! But he can! *young Brit runs with sword*
How has this not been made into a movie...this guy is next level.
5:11 vegetables were liberated! 😂
Hehe
😂😂
I like the really short pause.
"He had... liberated" :D
stolen
I "liberated" my neighbour's vegetables last night.
This guy deserves a movie
I don’t think his story is as interesting as Desmond Doss, but it has some potential.
Oliver Zanier Roy benevidez had the best story by a mile for me.
@@oliverzanier8202 Are you kidding? Killing soldiers with a sword and bow in a war fought with guns and escaping german imprisonment is more than enough for a good war adventure movie.
@@oliverzanier8202 he has a movie now this guy needs one
@@ichigo2012hollowmaskmayby after his dead he would be a Minecraft skeletton
Mad Jack? More like Mad Lad.
the maddest lad on earth
I couldn't imagine the horror those Germans must have felt after seeing a friendly soldier fall dead to an arrow or a sword blow.
What an absolute mad lad
CrazyOmighty Beatbox The best kind of madman though.
An absolute MAD LAD
Mad jack or mad man!?! Good discription 😆
Abdolute Madlad
Madlad
world war games should have a campaign difficulty named "Mad Jack" as the hardest option
And you could only use a sword and bow
Easy
Medium
Hard
John Wick
Mad Jack
NICE
Recruit
Regular
Hardened
Veteran
Realistic
Mad Jack
Mad Jack
Simo Häyhä
John Wick
"Daddy, what did you do during the war?"
"I liberated vegetables as I walked through the Alps."
"Gee, that sounds boring."
"It was my dear. It was."
This guy is literally the definition of a badass.
Mad Jack is one of those people that has real life plot armor. I thought the stories were exaggeration at first.
CHEATS:
Plot armor in history comes from the fact that you don't hear about the madmen who died/retired after they were shot. We tell the story about the people who defy the odd, be it by skill or dumb luck. How much would you know about Mad Jack if he had died the day he landed on the beach with his bagpipes?
it's up up down down left right left right b a start. it's literally the most famous cheat code in history. (that or the many forms of abacab)
Anon 3303 lol plot armor
Anon 3303 he pulled a jar jar binks with that plot armor
the lads under his command were just as nutty. one of them crawled up to some german defences and literally stole one of the germans hats. apparently the german kicked up a fuss and accused his fellow soldiers of stealing it. when asked why he stole the hat the soldier simply replied that he liked it
Wtf that regiment is crazy lol
I like hats too, who is that soldier?
@@uuamenator Thanks dude
sneaky pete, must have been a good hat.
@@uuamenator Ha! Mat is the best.
I'm Palestinian on my dads side and I know my great grandfather grew up during his time and worked with the British during the mandate. I was told he was best friends with a high ranking British officer who taught him combat techniques and I think that person could have been Mad Jack.
Can you ask for more info to your dad to confirm this?
Mad Jack: "Come at me death!"
Death: "Yeah, I think I'll pass."
“People are less likely to shoot at you if you smile at them” love it.
I feel like he's not afraid to die
He knew that he did his duty for Queen and Country.
@@Nicky2414
*King
@@zad_rasera A soldier who's afraid of dying will not play bagpipe leisurely amidst enemies while facing imminent capture, he will raise up their arms and beg for mercy instead.
So mad he wanted 10 more years of war
What a Mad Lad
😂
This video is so mad that he said epic in the first 10 seconds
Damn
We want war! We want war!
- mad jack
4:26 "...and soon Jack was alone, and out of ammo", says the narrator as Jack stands with a full quiver of arrows.
lol
This man was a reincarnated medieval Knight.
apparently German children who refuse to go to bed are told that mad Jack will come for them. on the rare occasion this doesn't work, the sound of distant bagpipes is all that is required.
No
@@yuurichito1439 yes
@@ragnar2068 no
@@yuurichito1439 ja
@@yuurichito1439 Y e s. Now go to bed child. As your ignorance *a n g e r s* him
Mad Jack was basically a real life comic book hero.
chakatBombshell A Green Arrow
JJ, Green Arrow and Hawkeye didn't carry a Claymore.
chakatBombshell Yrp
they also didn't think keeping a war going would be a good thing
freakingminecraftian Duh
Imagine seeing one of your fellow soldiers with an arrow in his eye, see another with his head lobbed off, and then you start to hear bagpipes from behind you
German Wermacht: (hears bagpipes playing, "March Of The Cameron Men.") "Why do I hear boss music?"
This would be awesome for a WWII movie.
Passion Ops omg yes
That would be the best movie ever
Yes yes yeeeeees!!!!
So Mad Jack has to be an Asian right?
XnXTNT Mad Jack was born on a British colony in Asia (which was before and now known as Hong Kong) but he and his past family comes from a European decent.
Now this would make a good movie if the right producer was involved .
JB1979 Clint Eastwood directibg
Tarantino
Michael Bay
@@Intruc3 NO
Intruc3 yes, definetly yes
One of the clearest memories I have in elementary school was learning about WW2. And had an interest in archery at the time I asked my teacher if bows were ever used in WW2. My teacher actually laughed and said, "Really? This is WW2. they used guns...c'mon" making me feel stupid.
I wish the kid me knew about Mad Jack
"Any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed." - Mad Jack
The Japanese actually surrendered because they heard Mad Jack was coming for them.
This comment is one of the main things I remembered from the video.
it's like dying to a pro CoD player when you just started
Demo man drunk noises
That is historically accurate!
@Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin nice nice
his life story should be a movie !!!!
Dr.Pepper it would be amazing!
A game*
Seems familiar with Rambo movies.
Rambo is fiction genius...
Like Rambo but real and more badass
This man didn’t clickbait us... he gave US MORE THAN WE ASKED FOR
He is a real man, real Briton. Never be more than that.
Who will win:
Axis soldiers armed with guns or one arrow boi with a sword
Not even fair to the axis
Matt 3370 one boi with a sword
SUPERDOG arrow boi with a sword
One arrow boi with a sword would win
definitely not a turd like you.
Someone please make a movie about this guy.
Afrika Smith Him or Paddy Mayne.
There is one it’s called Mad Jack
Afrika Smith Nobody would believe it.
they should make a movie on shrek
They'd need intermissions to say 'We aren't making this up', 'Really, this actually happened', and 'We *still* aren't making this up'.
"People are less likely to shoot at you if you smile at them." has to be one if my favorite quotes of all time
Another fun fact about Jack Churchill - after he retired and was living in England, on his train ride home every day he would throw his briefcase out of the train window. He later explained that he was tossing his case into his own back garden so he would not have to carry it from the station.
Anyone unsurprised he was chosen for 'Operation Archery?'
lol yes
Was the name a coincidence or delibrate ?
Both
Lol
I think it was named after him being second in command is a. High status
"Don't make me come over there." - Mad Jack to the Japanese
Japanese: This will be an epic battle.
Today on anime episode:
Mad Jack vs samurai
@@theunknowman12
*Mad Jack vs Samurai Jack*
Lol 80th like :)
@@twohandedswordsman852 Lol like the actual episode 🙃
thank you for the historical lessons 😊
Like a real life urban fantasy bard. Music, dramatics, good fighting, and almost magical accomplishments.
enemies: using auto machine gun
Mad Jack: i'm gonna do what's called a pro gamer move
Don't mind the machine gun rounds.
He has a pavese shield, he's totally fine just there.
mans playing Krieg from borderlands
its like a garbage looking weapon but with insane potential if you become a max level god
he has *PLOT ARMOR* cuz he WAS the main character
This channel deserves more recognition
chay lewis It truely does
mad jack: alone and out of ammo
also mad jack: *plays the bagpipes when taking heavy casuaties*
This guy deserves to get “player of the game”
I can only like this once? DANG IT
same with ur comment
When you forget to upgrade you're troops on civilization
Han Leo and they still kill a modern unit.
DrEXTREME91 Yeah lol
Lol
"Your English Longbow defeated German Infantry!"
Han Leo tell that to captain America you Yank
While everybody in WW2 was playing call of duty, This man was playing Skyrim
“He was out of ammo”
B-but he wasn’t??!?
Just imagine him fighting off a japanese banzai charge with his scottish long sword, I can´t imagine a most epic scene in the world , the most awesome clash of cultures
Regretfully someone used those damn nukes and ended the war too early for this to happen
GAndreC I am sorry my nation's government did that, because this is something I would like to see too.
this guy needs a movie
J C yeah
Who wold play him?
Johnny Depp ...
Literally the best channel ever
Now kids, remember for every amazing and brave mad jack, there are 1000 brave dead soldiers whos names you will never know who simply had a normal amount of luck.
How'd you get shot in the war?
*German machinegun.*
He will swing her sword as fast as he can dafuq
666 likes
Juanricardomiguel R. Noya her?
Highly Anticipated and well executed
Thanks
Soldier: we need more ammo!
MadJack: Hold my bagpipe!
hello I really like your vids about history.
Let's be honest, if you saw someone smile like Mad Jack, you would run away.
XD
How would you know how he smiled?
Gilhelmi especially while holding a sword.
If I see a guy with a bow and sword running at me smiling I'd go the other direction
Gilhelmi well not really if you have a gun its easy
Dude like seriously your channel is greatly underrated, this stuff is of another world
:D
ale Solís YO IKR
Holy molly you actually responded, senpai noticed me. (Bows down) "I am not worthy, I am not worthy"
Truly shows how the weapon is as strong as the user's experience with said weapon.
You should do a video on the soldiers who fought ww2 with only bagpipes.
Enemy; "You mad bro?"
Mad Jack; "Why yes, yes I am!"
Yunru's word. Nice one fam.
“So you have chosen death?”
Y E S, I A M
Is that a.... motherfucking jojo reference?!
@@Skinnypete38 No.
It's not mentioned in this video but Mad Jack also (confirmed kill) took out a sniper in a tower that was holding up him and his men. Just casually took out the sniper at long range with his bow.
HAHAHAHA
Olympia Ironhawk dang this guy's like a Robbin hood that got 3x more badass
Mr baldi if mad jack had tried to get himself inte robin hoods tight it would have looked like an upside down camel 😂😂
Wtf
God lord. Can this be more impressive?
That's the kind of guy you need on your side he's awesome