Winston Churchill shoulders an M1 carbine

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Prime Minister Winston Churchill at a show-and-tell of American small arms. Behind him is General Eisenhower. Should you believe Churchill is merely posing for the camera, au contraire, he was a combat veteran, quite familiar with guns.

As a reporter for the Daily Mail and Morning Post, he escaped a Boer POW camp and hopped a freight train to safety. Said he, "there's nothing more exhilarating than being shot at—with no result." In 1900 he was Lieutenant Churchill in the battle to take Pretoria and among the first to enter the city.
In World War I he was Lieutenant-Colonel Churchill, commanding the 6th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers and spent more than his share of time in No Man's Land. Churchill was the only Allied leader to also be a veteran of the Great War.

From Woodpile Report

Churchill owned a Thompson and a Sten. There was quiote a row years ago when the gov't wanted his guns turned in...the very Thompson that he was pictured pointing in one famous photo...his son took the gov't to task and I believe retained them. Also he carried a broom handle Mauser pistol in the Boer war. He pointed out that coming under direct contact was "Very exhilarating"...I agree...

Where's the cigar? When he was shooting the Tommy gun he did it with a cigar in his mouth!

Bob

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Originally Posted by Bob Womack

Where's the cigar? When he was shooting the Tommy gun he did it with a cigar in his mouth!

Bob

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You can see that he's actually using the sling.

He looks like he knows what he's doing. I was in the UK 1996. Visited Princess Di's family estate. There was a bed with a rope around it and a sign saying that Winston Churchill was born in that bed. Fabulous.
If there had been any other politician running England instead of Churchill, they would have considered and taken a treaty with Germany and the whole thing might have gone far differently. Old Winston told Hitler to shove his peace treaty....come and get it! He was far,far more of a leader than anyone of the time. Further, If not for the vigorous and costly losing fight in Crete, Germany would have taken Malta which was the key to N Africa. Greece would have fallen into the communist sphere had not Churchill pushed for a civil war

Churchill was captured by the Boers when he was a war correspondent whilst covering a story about that war they were on a train, he then escaped from them coming back home he enlisted in the army and went to Mafikeng.
Here I think he was wounded by a sword and the broomhandle pistol saved his life in a really desperate fight at a few yards range in a melee without that pistol Churchill said "I would not be here." I have a couple of books on him book on him that snippet was from 'Churchill His Early Life", WWII War Speeches, the 2 volume set The World Crisis 1911-1918.

If we had leaders like him today, the world would be a safer and better place...

Russ

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Originally Posted by RASelkirk

leaders like him

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The greatest part of our trouble today seems to be the lack of leadership that participated in combat...those guys are all gone and things seem to have degraded...or am I wrong?