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.

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