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  "textContent": "John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill — nicknamed \"Fighting Jack\" and \"Mad Jack\" — fought through the entire Second World War armed with a Scottish broadsword, a longbow, and a set of bagpipes. He graduated from Sandhurst in 1926, left the army a decade later to work as a newspaper editor and film extra, then re-enlisted when Germany invaded Poland in 1939. — Read the rest \n\nThe post The WWII commando who fought with a broadsword, longbow, and bagpipes appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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