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  1. May 4, 2019 · Lieutenant Colonel John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill managed to capture more than 40 Germans in one single raid during World War Two. After all this, he received the Distinguished Service Order. Just one year after this fantastic action, Jack was set to assist Josip Broz Tito’s forces in Yugoslavia. He led a full assault in the midst of ...

  2. Aug 10, 2023 · Jack Churchill, or Mad Jack as history fondly remembers him, was a larger-than-life figure who showed the world that reality can often outshine fiction. His escapades were so wild that they read ...

  3. Mad Jack Joins the Fighting in World War II. Mad Jack Churchill resumed his military commission when Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939. He was assigned to the Manchester Regiment in the British Expeditionary Force. He quickly found himself in a daring encounter during the Battle of France in May 1940. Leading his men in ambushing a German ...

  4. Sep 10, 2017 · John Strange Spencer Churchill (Jack) was born in Dublin on 4 February 1880, during the time his grandfather, the seventh Duke of Marlborough, was Viceroy of Ireland, and his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was serving as his Private Secretary. The family lived there from December 1876 until April 1880. The men variously supposed to be Jack ...

  5. Apr 5, 2016 · Jack, once again being a lunatic, decided to raid the island late at night. The siege drove on to the early hours of the morning, leading to his subsequent failure and capture. He was hit by the shockwave of a grenade, knocking him unconscious. Because of his rank and ability, the German High Command wanted to interrogate him.

  6. Dec 9, 2018 · Jack Churchill represented Britain at the 1939 World Archery Championships He was educated at King William’s College on the Isle of Man, and later he graduated from the Royal Military College at Sandhurst in 1926 after which he served in the Manchester Regiment stationed in Burma.

  7. May 20, 2014 · Lieutenant Colonel John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill, a.k.a. "Mad Jack," was finally honored this year by the Royal Norwegian Explorers Club for being a crazy bastard who ran screaming into ...

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