b93882 No.660571 [Last50 Posts]
I am talking about combat situations in which soldiers or officers use morale as their main weapon. Or even use morale as their only weapon.
https://hooktube.com/watch?v=GrauBQf7FpI&pbjreload=10
So there have been occasions where, officers or even generals didnt take cover. I also heard that there has been at least one attack by the white army in the russian civil war, that was basicly a march towards the red army position by the white army.
They went in marching formation and decoracted uniforms which caused the reds to simply surrender or run away.
Does anybody know something about this? I couldnt find anything myself.
Or any other compareable battle.
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76d178 No.660581
>>660571
>On September 7, Raginis' forces (approximately 720 men, out of which roughly 650 were killed) were attacked by more than 42,000 German soldiers. To keep the morale of his men high, Raginis pledged that he would not leave his post alive.
>The defense of Wizna against overwhelming odds lasted for three days. On September 10, 1939, the bunker commanded by Raginis was the last remaining pocket of resistance. Although heavily wounded, Raginis was still commanding his troops. At noon on the third day, the German commander, Heinz Guderian, threatened that all Polish POWs would be shot if the defense of the bunker did not cease. Turning to his men in the shelter, Raginis thanked them for the fact that they were soldiers and did their duty. He then ordered them to surrender and leave the shelter - he would keep his word and not surrender. Seweryn Biegański, who was the last to leave the shelter, describes the moment;
>"The captain looked at me warmly and softly urged me to leave. When I was at the exit, I was hit on my back with strong gust and I heard an explosion."
>In his diaries, German General Heinz Guderian noted that 900 German soldiers were killed in action, although that number is probably a low estimate. It is certain, however, that the Wehrmacht lost at least 10 tanks and several other AFVs in the struggle.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Wizna
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b050d8 No.660582
Invidious embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>660571
Hooktube doesn't do anything, use invidio.us from now on.
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374e38 No.660585
https://www.historynet.com/the-greatest-german-general-no-one-ever-heard-of.htm
>At the start of World War II, Balck commanded the lead infantry regiment that spearheaded the crossing of the Meuse River by Guderian’s panzers in May 1940. When his exhausted troops collapsed to the ground after they crossed the river, Balck walked to the head of the column, picked up a rifle, and pointed to the high ground ahead that was his regiment’s objective. Announcing that he was going to take the hill with or without them, he started moving forward. His troops got up and followed him to the top.
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76d178 No.660588
And another one because I'm a filthy Poleophile.
>The Battle of Trembowla, more popularly known as the Defence of Trembowla took place between September 20 – October 11, 1675, during the Polish-Ottoman War (1672-1676). Heroic resistance of Polish forces became a symbol, and was glorified and immortalised in the paintings of Franciszek Smuglewicz, Józef Peszka and Aleksander Lesser.
>The castle in Trembowla was built in the 14th century on a high hill over the valley of the Hniezna river. Despite its small size (100 metres by 40 metres), it was a strong fortress with walls up to 4 metres thick. After the Turks had captured Kamieniec Podolski (see Siege of Kamieniec Podolski), Trembowla was one of the few Podolian strongholds still in Polish hands.
>In the summer of 1675, a 30,000 strong Turkish-Tatar army under Sisman Ibrahim entered Red Ruthenia, a province of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. On July 27, the invaders captured Zbaraz, on September 11, Podhajce, and on September 20, the Turks approached Trembowla. The castle was defended by a small unit of 80 infantry soldiers, some members of the local nobility, supported by 200 poorly armed, untrained peasants and residents of the town, who fled to the castle. Before the siege, a unit of dragoons stationed here, but was ordered to leave Trembowla, due to food shortages. Polish forces were commanded by Captain Jan Samuel Chrzanowski, whose wife, Anna Dorota Chrzanowska (née Anna Dorota von Fresen), became immortalized after the siege.
>Despite Turkish efforts, the defenders of castle managed to hold their positions after several attacks. After several days, however, shortages of food and water became severe, and Captain Chrzanowski decided to surrender. His wife disagreed with this decision, and threatened to commit suicide if her husband proceeded with the planned surrender, thereby stiffening his spine and creating an atmosphere for defending the castle. Furthermore, Anna Dorota urged the defenders to carry out an attack on Turkish positions, which resulted in heavy losses among the invaders. Chrzanowska’s determination raised the morale among the Poles, but their losses were also heavy. In the night of October 4/5, only 20 soldiers were able to fight. Facing danger from forces of Jan III Sobieski, which concentrated near Lwow, the Turks decided to end the siege on October 11.
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c71480 No.660592
>>660571
These dagos cavalry charged a russian machine gun trench, discovered their horses could still run in a straight line, even after dying and butchered the reds after diving into said trench.
Viva la nazione d'Italia
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cd82de No.660957
look at people who won the medal of honor, especially the ones who didnt even use guns.
>For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as chaplain on board the U.S.S. Franklin when that vessel was fiercely attacked by enemy Japanese aircraft during offensive operations near Kobe, Japan, on 19 March 1945. A valiant and forceful leader, calmly braving the perilous barriers of flame and twisted metal to aid his men and his ship, Lt. Comdr. O'Callahan groped his way through smoke-filled corridors to the open flight deck and into the midst of violently exploding bombs, shells, rockets, and other armament. With the ship rocked by incessant explosions, with debris and fragments raining down and fires raging in ever-increasing fury, he ministered to the wounded and dying, comforting and encouraging men of all faiths; he organized and led firefighting crews into the blazing inferno on the flight deck; he directed the jettisoning of live ammunition and the flooding of the magazine; he manned a hose to cool hot, armed bombs rolling dangerously on the listing deck, continuing his efforts, despite searing, suffocating smoke which forced men to fall back gasping and imperiled others who replaced them. Serving with courage, fortitude, and deep spiritual strength, Lt. Cmdr. O'Callahan inspired the gallant officers and men of the Franklin to fight heroically and with profound faith in the face of almost certain death and to return their stricken ship to port.
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cd82de No.660958
The time when a crazy leaf in the coast guard saved 500 marines by using himself as a human shield.
>With Japanese troops moving against the beach, Munro piloted his boat closer to shore to act as a shield.[2] Though the initial extraction was successful, one of the LCTs soon became grounded on a sandbar. Munro directed the other LCT to help extricate the grounded vessel as he, once again, maneuvered his own boat to shield the Marines from Japanese fire from the shore.[2] Munro was struck by incoming Japanese rounds and lost consciousness.[2]
>The LCT was ultimately freed and the boats resumed their withdrawal.[2] When out of range of Japanese forces, Munro briefly regained consciousness before succumbing to his wounds.[2] According to Evans, his dying words were, "Did they get off?"
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74222e No.660998
Everything he did.
>starred in biographical film
>had to tone down his exploits because nobody would believe they actually happened if he didn't
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326511 No.661325
>Pick a VC winner
If you're asking for personal favourites go for Paul Kenna, or Aiden Liddel.
<Kenna
<Charged back into the heart of a 52'000 strong Mahdist army, against orders, to retrieve a man from his regiment who had been injured and left behind.
If that doesn't cut it for you he had a rather fantastic set of cavalrymans whiskers.
>Liddell
>After signing up with the WW1 RFC, and being assigned to fly recon missions, he made his reconnaissance mission after taking at least one MG-08 round to the thigh, losing consciousness from blood loss - leading to him losing control of his aircraft and only regaining control a few dozen feet from the bottom of a nose dive, and brought the aircraft back to the airfield on shattered landing gear. He then refused medical attention (and sedation/pain relief) until he had made a full verbal report, as the Krauts were in the habit of moving their artillery pieces as often as possible to avoid the counterbattery fire he was supposed to direct.
If neither of those cut it for you then look up Adrian Carton de Wiart VC
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3d2f78 No.661337
Carl Klinke
>charges wall with a 30 pounds sack of black powder
>shouts "Ick bin Klinke. Ick öffne dit Tor."
>blows himself up
>opens the walls of the forts
>Prussian victory
Shitpostan and Akbaring before either was cool.
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cd82de No.661593
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
Neall ellis
>Neall Ellis had a successful career as a military pilot behind him and an easygoing civilian life to look forward to. There was just one problem: He was immensely bored with living like a regular guy.
So Ellis decided to become a soldier for hire. Specifically, he started taking work as a private mercenary helicopter pilot, securing his first contract fighting for Bosnia in the Yugoslav wars. After that, he spent some time in Angola. Finally, in the late '90s, his duties took him to Sierra Leone.
The Revolutionary United Front, a rebel faction fighting the UN-supported government of Sierra Leone, was winning in 1999. They were knocking on the door of the nation's capital, Freetown, and the situation was in fact so hopeless that British forces were abandoning the area just as Ellis arrived.
Ellis and his team, however, were unshaken by the fact that they were pretty much the only foreigners still in the game. They stayed and fought, presumably for their own amusement, flying missions with Ellis' gunship helicopter and messing with the rebels any way they could. The RUF got so enraged by him that they soon sent him a message:
"If we ever catch you, we'll cut out your heart and eat it."
Ellis responded by stocking his gunship full of weapons (in case he should ever be shot down) and hovering over RUF strongholds, showered them with leaflets saying:
"RUF: This time we've dropped leaflets. Next time it will be a half-inch Gatling machine gun, or 57 mm rockets, or 23 mm guns, or 30 mm grenades, or ALL OF THEM!"
After a while, the government of Sierra Leone stopped paying Ellis, because they were forced to abandon the Freetown area, too. Ellis, however, enjoyed the little flame war he got going so much that he kept flying missions for another year, pro bono. During that time, in addition to his usual antics, Ellis single-handedly stopped the RUF from advancing into Freetown – without a co-pilot, in the middle of the night and without any night vision TWICE.
At some point, the Brits realized that the ragtag bunch of madmen they'd left behind were actually winning, so they skulked ashamedly back into the fight by financing Ellis and offering assistance.
Ellis and his helicopter stuck with Sierra Leone all the way up to the RUF's defeat in 2002. What does he think of the war-torn country he's spent years fighting in, with a significant portion of its denizens wanting to eat his heart? He loves it. So much, in fact, that he's going to move there when he retires.
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0995ab No.661620
>>661337
That one just sounds like pure insanity but I respect him.
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825474 No.661623
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95abf6 No.661629
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0ab847 No.661867
>>661593
So what happened to him after 2002?
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d0847c No.661899
>>661867
The rumor was he was still out there fighting ISIS circa ~2010.
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cd82de No.662168
>>661867
I think I read somewhere he was in the middle east doing some spook shit with his helicopter within the last 5-6 years. His achievements are ridiculous, IIRC at one point he ran out of ammunition, so he used his helicopter to kill rebels by landing on them.
I did find an article from 2017
>In September 2000, Ellis flew his helicopter in support of Operation Barras, a rescue mission of several soldiers from the Royal Irish Regiment who had been captured. He would also flew missions with the British SAS.
Ellis and his crew would stay in Sierra Leone until the defeat of the RUF in 2002.
Ellis' reputation earned him a trip to Iraq working with the British during the invasion in 2003.
Later, he would also fly in Afghanistan "where, he reckons, he has had more close shaves than in his entire previous four-decades put together."
At the age of 67, he is currently rumored to be flying against the Islamic State.
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897e68 No.667167
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Benavidez
>gets blown up by landmine during early phase of the Vietnam War
>doctor says he'll never walk again
>ignores the doctor, spends everyday in agony learning how to walk again
>able to walk again, goes back to Vietnam as special forces
>innajungle a squad gets pinned down by gooks
>enlists so fast to help he doesn't bring his M16, only has knife and medic bag, and the only guy to go
>manages to drag out most of the team and three NVA for potential intel
>shot 28 times one going through his scalp and under his heart, arms slashed, blunt trauma with rifle butt, right lung is finished
>medic thinks he's dead so he zips him up
>spits in his face to show he's alive
>no one thought he'd live, after a year he exits the hospital on his own feet
Must be the heyahoya and Aztec insanity.
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46d2a1 No.667197
The actions of the DD/DE commanders during the Battle off Samar. Charging a Japanese Battlegroup with your ship designed to protect convoys against submarines and thus turning the Japs away from multiple vulnerable high value targets seem worthy of inclusion in this thread.
>>667189
Thanks for the contribution to the thread, swede.
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e94f12 No.667271
>>661337
>ick bin Klinke
Does Klinke mean something or is that part of the shitposting? Know anything else about him?
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aca420 No.667323
>>667167
What is up with the older generation and spitting? Seems so strange to me.
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5d6492 No.667324
>>667271
Its his name, which is also a pun because it means latch if I recall, so he stated he was the door handle and proceeded to open the door with all he had.
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e874c8 No.667328
>Be Australian woodcutter.
>Be the main reason why Australia is a desert.
>Hear there is a war and lots of trees in Europe.
>So enlist.
>Enlisting office loose the papers.
>Enlist again.
>Tough guy but bad recruit with discipline issue.
>Get shipped out someplace with a funny name.
>Gallipoli.
>Roaches everywhere.
>Punished squad gets to defend an isolated post.
>Roaches rush the main trench.
>Kills everyone everyone but his squad.
>"We should counter attack".
>"Dude, there are three of us"
>"Oh, well I'll go alone you distract them".
>Sounds of fighting.
>Reinforcement comes in the next day.
>The soldiers point to the main trench as to where their Corporal went.
>Troops close on the main trench without getting shot at.
>Jacka is there is the middle of the roaches corpses.
>At least two where killed with a blade.
>VC.
>But it's just 1915…
>Get fast tracked to Lt.
>Shipped to the Somme.
>His trench gets pounded by 8 hours of shelling.
>German hit the place, kill most people, start making prisoners.
>Starts mopping up tossing grenades into the shelters in one of which where Jacka is half-stunned.
>Grenade goes off.
>Kills everyone in the shelter.
>Doesn't kill Jacka.
>Jacka proceed to kill the Germans.
>'BAREHANDED.'
>Kills TWENTY.
>Is a complete mess (shot, stabbed, hit).
>"Only" gets a MC for it (has they felt it was his fault Germans crept in in the first place).
>But it's only 1916.
>Has he has become a propaganda piece, gets promoted to captain and quite frankly as some question his sanity, gets transferred to a "cushy job" in intelligence.
>Instead uses his freedom to conduct night raids alone.
>One night he breaches a German trench alone, set up assault paths, capture two sentries (by punching them).
>Gets a bar on his MC.
>They decide that he's gonna get himself killed no matter what they do, so they give him a bigger unit.
>Gets two more DSO recommendation (but doesn't get it quite possibly out of British snobbism).
>Get sniped.
>Get gassed.
>He's fine
>Gets shot in the neck in 1918.
>Doctors are certain he's gonna die.
>Doesn't.
>Died of disease in 1932.
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a8a0ea No.667330
>>667328
Who was the Australian soldier that would attack German trenches armed with only a bag of mills bombs?
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e874c8 No.667331
>>667330
It's Arthur Blackburn I think.
The reason Jacka didn't got one of his DSO is because Blackburn got a VC for it on the same day at the same battle (just a different part of it) and the British are cheap bastards.
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cd82de No.667332
>>667328
>Gets shot in the neck in 1918.
>Doctors are certain he's gonna die.
>Doesn't.
>Died of disease in 1932.
anti vaxxers BTFO
still contributing
>Cpl. Samuel Toloza of El Salvador's Cuscatlan Battalion displays his bloodstained knife that he used to fend off Iraqi gunmen in Najaf, Iraq, Saturday May 1, 2004. One of his friends was dead, 12 others lay wounded and four soldiers still left were surrounded and out of ammunition, so Toloza used his switchblade knife to charge the Iraqi gunmen. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)
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e874c8 No.667347
>>667330
But big knife and grenades are the French Foreign Legion way of fighting.
>Be 1917.
>Chemin des Dames (probably worst battle of WWI, at least on the western front, it's the one that led to the mass mutinies).
>Attack is completely retarded.
>Coupled to the fact that the Germans have the french artillery planning due to a runner being caught with it.
>And the french command KNOWS IT, but decide it doesn't matters.
>Be the Foreign Legion March Regiment.
>Started the war with 4… Only one under-strength remain made of the survivors of 3 years of gruesome fighting.
>Whole offensive is a clusterfuck.
>Colonel and lots of officers gets killed.
>6 and 7 companies are wiped out.
>Only order they get is "keep pushing the heavy artillery is gonna clear the Germans heavy position" (even if it's been two days they're telling them the germans aren't where the heavy artillery is hitting).
>Commander that assumed command says "fuck this".
>Order to stop attacking, split in 2-3 men squads and to wait for the night.
>Drops the useless fucking rifles too, just pack as much grenades you can.
>Be German officer.
>Be laughing your ass off as you're dodging planned artillery strike and killing french by the cart load.
>Suddenly hear lots of explosions in the night…
>But no gun fire or artillery fire.
>WTF???
>Send a few men.
>Few gun shot here and there but nothing.
>No ones come back.
>Do it again with more.
>Same.
>WTF is going on?
>Legionnaire have cleared the trenches but didn't stay.
>They wait in shell holes in the no-man's land in between the next trench and the cleaned one.
>They grab the germans as they come and butcher them.
>creep to the second trench.
>Grenade it.
>Rinse repeat.
>Keep advancing for kilometers of frontlines.
>Only french regiment that does.
>Use 10 000 grenades in a week (with around 1000 legionnaire left).
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8fabd1 No.667438
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dbdc5c No.667462
>>667347
>it was real in my mind
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5e3607 No.667484
ITT larping and historic revisionism.
I know it's fun to pretend these people exist but you should all know it's utter bullshit propaganda for the most part.
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c0e127 No.667485
/k/'s resident poleophile back here with a new post for you
>The Battle of Hodów was a battle between the Kingdom of Poland and Crimean Khanate forces, fought in June 1694 in the Ruthenian Voivodeship of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, near the village of Hodów (now in Zboriv Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine). Often it is called Polish Thermopylae, like the Battle of Wizna.
>In June 1694 Tatar Muslims forces invaded Polish territory with the aim to pillage the countryside and capture prisoners for ransom. The Polish forces sent to stop them consisted of 7 chorągwie of hussars and pancerni from the Trenches of the Holy Trinity (Okopy Świętej Trójcy) and The Redoubt of Virgin Mary (Szaniec Panny Marii) strongholds, approximately four hundred men in total; historian Mirosław Nagielski estimates 100 hussars and 300 pancerni. Tatar numbers were estimated at twenty-five to seventy thousand, with forty thousand being the most commonly quoted figure. John III Sobieski, the king of Poland at the time, also mentioned the figure of forty thousand.
>The first encounter took place on the fields near Hodów. The Polish cavalry charged the 700-strong Tatar vanguard and made them withdraw. Shortly afterwards Polish forces retreated to Hodów village due to overwhelming enemy numbers, and proceeded to fortify themselves using heavy wooden fences left there from earlier Tatar invasions. For the next 6 hours Polish troops resisted relentless Tatar attacks. Even after the Polish ran out of bullets, they continued to fire at the enemy, using Tatar arrows as improvised ammunition for their guns.
>Unable to defeat the Poles, Tatars sent Polish-speaking Lipka Tatars to convince the Polish troops to surrender. When the Polish commander replied "Come and get us if you can", the Tatars withdrew to Kamieniec Podolski and gave up on the entire invasion, having gained nearly nothing despite large troop losses and vast numerical advantage.
>King John III Sobieski made use of this outstanding victory to raise army morale: he paid generous compensation to those who lost their horses, financed treatment of wounded and rewarded those who captured enemy soldiers. In 1695 he also commissioned a statue commemorating the battle. This monument survived into modern times and was renewed in the summer of 2014, then officially unveiled during the celebration of 320th anniversary of the Battle, on 25 October 2014.
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c0e127 No.667486
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e47c83 No.667893
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646750 No.667904
>>667347
Sounds neat, but do you got a source for that?
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b94bcf No.667992
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e273c9 No.668394
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Medal_of_Honor_recipients
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McGonagle
>For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty as Commanding Officer, USS Liberty (AGTR-5) in the Eastern Mediterranean on 8–9 June 1967. Sailing in international waters, the Liberty was attacked without warning by jet fighter aircraft and motor torpedo boats which inflicted many casualties among the crew and caused extreme damage to the ship. Although severely wounded during the first air attack, Captain (then Commander) McGonagle remained at his battle station on the badly damaged bridge and, with full knowledge of the seriousness of his wounds, subordinated his own welfare to the safety and survival of his command. Steadfastly refusing any treatment which would take him away from his post, he calmly continued to exercise firm command of his ship. Despite continuous exposure to fire, he maneuvered his ship, directed its defense, supervised the control of flooding and fire, and saw to the care of the casualties. Captain McGonagle's extraordinary valor under these conditions inspired the surviving members of the Liberty's crew, many of them seriously wounded, to heroic efforts to overcome the battle damage and keep the ship afloat. Subsequent to the attack, although in great pain and weak from the loss of blood, Captain McGonagle remained at his battle station and continued to command his ship for more than seventeen hours. It was only after rendezvous with a United States destroyer that he relinquished personal control of the Liberty and permitted himself to be removed from the bridge. Even then, he refused much needed medical attention until convinced that the seriously wounded among his crew had been treated. Captain McGonagle's superb professionalism, courageous fighting spirit, and valiant leadership saved his ship and many lives. His actions sustain and enhance the finest traditions of the United States Naval Service.
TL;DR
Gets goyed without warning and keeps going
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9e37cf No.668469
>>668394
Conspicuously absent, the name of the nation attacking the ship.
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646750 No.668476
>>668469
It just so happened to be the only medal of honor that was awarded in secret too
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f90ec4 No.668491
>>667462
>>667904
It's part of the 3rd battle of Champagne.
Note that by the 21 they were basically down to a battalion size element, I do make it sound easy, but it's still WWI…
And like most battle of WWI it was completely useless. Sure they gained ground but all the Germans did is fall back on the next prepared cohesive back line.
And it's not even the most crazy part of the battle.
The most crazy part is when the 6th company, that is down to one NCO and 14 legionnaire take the fortified artillery position (7 105mm, defended by a German company at full strength…).
NCO was German BTW. Liked killing Germans so much he made it a full time job (deserted after killing his superior officer in the Wurtemberg Pioneers before the war, signed up in the FFL as everyone knows it's not a crime to kill germanimals, it's just pest control).
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e273c9 No.668495
>>668469
It actually does say the nation, just not in the citation.
>>668476
Where do you see that? Do you mean it was awarded later? Because a lot of medals of honor are award many years later, even post death.
>For extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy of the United Nations while serving with Company H, 2d Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division. Private First Class KAHOOHANOHANO distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism in action against enemy aggressor forces in the vicinity of Chup'a-ri, Korea, on 1 September 1951. On that date, Private KAHOOHANOHANO was in charge of a machine-gun squad supporting the defensive positions of Company F when a numerically superior enemy force launched a fierce attack. Because of the overwhelming numbers of the enemy, it was necessary for the friendly troops to execute a limited withdrawal. As the men fell back, he ordered his squad to take up more tenable positions and provide covering fire for the friendly force. Then, although painfully wounded in the shoulder during the initial enemy assault, he gathered a supply of grenades and ammunition and returned to his original position to face the enemy alone. As the hostile troops concentrated their strength against his emplacement in an effort to overrun it, Private KAHOOHANOHANO fought fiercely and courageously, delivering deadly accurate fire into the ranks of the onrushing enemy. When his ammunition was depleted, he engaged the enemy in hand-to-hand combat until he was killed. His heroic stand so inspired his comrades that they launched a counterattack that completely repulse the enemy. Coming upon Private KAHOOHANOHANO's position, the friendly troops found eleven enemy soldiers lying dead before it and two in the emplacement itself, beaten to death with an entrenching shovel.
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646750 No.668504
>>668495
>The Medal of Honor was presented to him, in secret, at the Washington Navy Yard by the Secretary of the Navy, rather than at the White House by the President.[4] This represents the only time a Medal of Honor recipient was awarded in such a manner
It's right there in the wikipedia link that you posted
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323e3c No.672939
>>667170
Read Gunship Ace about him, can be had for pretty cheap from (((amazon))).
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90a194 No.687578
>>668394
That deserves a Hollywood movie, I wonder why one hasn't been made yet…
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90a194 No.687581
>>668504
Don't forget to archive things like that.
http://archive.is/d9ImY
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eece7b No.687598
ARDITI!
Is there anything more heroic than running against enemy's fire to breach their line equipped only with daggers and hand-grenades?
>Arditi was the name adopted by Italian Army elite special forces of World War I.
>The name derives from the Italian verb Ardire ("to dare") and translates as "The Daring Ones".
>Reparti d'assalto (Assault Units) were formed in the summer of 1917 by Colonel Bassi, and were assigned the tactical role of shock troops, breaching enemy defenses in order to prepare the way for a broad infantry advance.
>The Arditi were not units within infantry divisions, but were considered a separate combat arm.
>https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Arditi
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03aa4c No.688579
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5a9fd2 No.688603
>>660581
Battle of Wizna wasn't actually anything special. The mismatch of forces is pretty normal for a siege battle of the time and the reason the Germans needed 3 days to dig out the Poles was that they had to build new bridges over the Narew river after the Pole blew them up. So much for the "Polish Thermopylae".
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1a3b65 No.688676
>>667167
>Aztec insanity.
He was a yaqui actually aka south of arizona feather niggers, the guys who fought apaches by jumping into their moving horses and brawling both with poisoned knives. They were also known to be the last indigenous tribe along with the Seri to be continuously fighting the mexican government due to the federal troops killing their colony-era christian priests who functioned as technology purveyors.
That indian war was so roughed that the president outright enslaved and forced their families to camps in the deep south of the country, but they were notorious for escaping said places in the middle of the jungle and walking back to their houses 3000km up north, it took months and sometimes a year but many did it and there was a case of one that did it twice. Then another rebellion happened and the president, the same one, just ordered to cut the feet of the POWs (along with the hands of the Seri), which then spread the rumors and made them even more suicidal in their warfaring antics. When the revolutionary war started, the most effective forces were composed of them due to their permanent alert state and recent kamikaze experience, which led the side recruiting most of them to win the multi-party war in the end, walking into the capital victorious while also winning themselves a blanket pardon but not nearly the amount of lands they wanted. You can say they had a special autism for walking/marching around.
IIRC one of the U.S. soldiers who raised the flag in Iwo Jima was a feather nigger related to them. And for further shenanigans, their revolutionary war general, Alvaro Obregon, was also a madman, i think Pershing did write about him in the Pancho Villa expedition.
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0630cb No.688777
>>687598
pushing them back all the way from caporetto to venice in two weeks
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e5d8d1 No.688780
>>688676
Did they really use bows?
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043040 No.689219
Probably not what you had in mind, OP, but here's an example from Mesoamerican (Aztec, Maya, etc) history
>Be known as the greatest warrior of his country,the kingdom of Tlaxcala
>Fought in a giant war, he hoped to die fighting
>Got captured and brought before Moctezuma II to be sacrificed, and he became the only man in history to be offered a pardon because Moctezuma didn't feel right killing such an amazing warrior
>Refused because he didn't consider it right he should be granted mercy over his fellows and as he could not return to his people after losing
>Moctezuma begged him to take over Aztec forces and lead a defense against the Purepecha empire, desperate to spare him to the point he was willing to give him control of an army
>He accepts, hoping to find a glorious death
>Completely obliterates the enemy army instead, returns, and demands to be sacrificed again since his plan to die an honourable death in war didn't work (again)
>Moctezuma finally agrees but only after trying to spare him again by offering to make him permanent commander of his army or offering him to go home, to both of which he refused
>For his sacrifice he was drugged, tied to the altar with only a loinclith on, given a macuahuitl with feathers instead of obsidian blades as normal, and had a troupe of famous warriors sent at him while fully armed , pic related
>He crippled eight before the ninth got him offguard
Different sources give different telling, this is a bit of a synthesis of different sources. If you want I can clarify what other versions say.
Tlaxcala is pretty cool, btw, it was a kingdom of 2 dozen or so towns/cities, ruled by a unified republic of 4-city states that had a collective senate. senators had to undergo like 2 years of training where they were physically beaten and psychologically tortured with yelling and being tied to chairs and shit while also undergoing strict legal and political lessons to ensure they'd be both physically and mentally fit enough to be making political and administrative decisions. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/it-wasnt-just-greece-archaeologists-find-early-democratic-societies-americas
Culturally it (Tlaxcala/the Tlaxcalateca) were also "Aztec" in the sense that it belonged to the Nahua culture/civilization, which sometimes the term "Aztec" is used to mean (other times it's used to refer to the specific subgroup of Nahuas, the Mexica, who lived in Tenochtitlan (and Tlatelolco, which was founded by Tenochca dissidents but was eventually conquered and absorbed), or the "Aztec Empire", which was the alliance between the city-states of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco (belonging to the Acolhua Nahuan subgroup), and Tlacopan (belonging to the Tepanec Nahuan subgroup), and all their subject tributary and vassal states, some of which were Nahuas and some of which were other civilizaitons/cultures like Maya, Mixtec, Zapotec, Huastec, Totonac, Otomi, etc)
Also, the Purepecha/Tarascan Empire is also neat: It was a large Empire to the west of the Aztec Empire, and it was the only other Mesoamerican state as of the time of Spanish contact which were really giving the Aztec real competition as an existential threat to them, having repeatedly BTFO'd attempted Aztec invasions and counter-counquered some areas along their border, such as the valley of Toluca, and also fortified their border with a series of forts and watchtowers and allowing people to settle towns along the border as long as they acted as spies for the Purepecha. The Purepecha empire was the region's largest hotbed of Bronze production and was also unique in that unlike other large Mesoamerican states which had indirect hedgemonic politivcal systems with suject cities not being directly governed (such as with tributary and vassal systems like the Aztec and/ or installing rulers from your own royal dyansty on conquered cities, like the Classical Maya kingdoms, among other methods), the Purepecha Empire was a directly governor imperialist state, with governors reporting directly to the Purepecha Emperor being placed on it's cities following a successful coup/successon crsis in the 1450's
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337137 No.689220
>>689219
So furfags were a menace even back then huh?
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8163a1 No.689223
>>689219
Mesoamerica is really quite interesting and mysterious.
I'd love a witcher like video game set in mesoamerican fantasy, to partly learn about their actual history but also their myths
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043040 No.689228
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043040 No.689229
>>689220
It's armor, actually: The onsie suits are called Tlahuiztl, they were made of a base layer of padded armor (basically gambeson; the Tlahuitzli was itself worn over a more basic tunic/vest of padded armor called Ichcahuipilli (first image), which was also used by mid ranking soldiers by itself who hadn't earned the Tlahuitzli) which was then covered in many thousands of feathers, arranged based on colors to form patterns such as jaguar spots, geometric designs, etc, the different colors and designs signifying rank and unit division. You see the same feather mosiac technique used on various other things such as Ehuatl (see second image, another form of armor, basically a tunic version of Tlahuitzli usually worn by commanders and royalty and was more ceremonial, though non-Mexica nahua groups like the Tlaxcalateca seemed to use it more liberally) shields (3rd image; these were usually a cane/reed or hardwood backing with then padded/gambeson body, and then the feather mosiac front, sometimes with copper/bronze/gold ornamentation and a leather strip or feather fringe along the bottom, similar to what you see as waist protection in some greco-roman stuff) , the helmets (the animal ones were hardwood with then the feather mosiac/precious stone/gold/copper/bronze ornmentation; 4th image; some of the more hat-esque helmets were probably (this is my guess, i'm not sure) a wood or reed frame with padding and feather mosiac like the shields), other Aztec art, and it was used in the colional period to make "paintings" using catholic imagery, such as seen here (5th image)
Happy to post more images of stuff/higher res versions on request btw
>>689223
It's "mysterious" mainly just because most people aren't educated on it. We know a lot more then most people realize: It's true that the Spanish mass burned their libraries and texts which leads to us having much less surviving sources then what we might otherwise have, but there's still hundreds of colional era document both in Spanish and Nahuatl talking about Aztec history and society down to pretty specific detail: Sahagun's history for instance is like 2000+ pages of detailed information on daily life, government organization, culture, and general society; from judicial systems to merchantry to medicine (down to like bonotanical enclyopedic entries on specific plants and their medicinal uses) while Duran's history is a similar work but detailing their history, down to specific statements made by specific political officials (though obviously it's moreso a mix of history, myth, and propoganda, like a lot of ancient historical records) There's enough that there's been entire books written about specific political officials, like "Allure of Nezahualcoyotl" and "Tlaclelel remebered".
For the Classical Maya meanwhile there's dozens of cities with surviving inscriptions detailing political history of their cities, royal families, etc pretty meticliously, even if in a dry "On X date Y happened" sort of way, and we have 8 surviving Mixtec books documenting similar information for them, which gives us a rather incredible "narrative" of the insanely Chad warlord 8-Deer-Jaguar-Claw.
Others like the Purepecha Totonacs, etc are in much more precarious spots with only a few colonial era aztec-esque sources and that's it, but even just that + archaeology can tell quite a bit, though a lot of areas just haven't been investigated that much archeologically yet.
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a71736 No.689248
Piper Daniel Laidlaw
http://www.pipesofwar.com/piper-of-loos/history.php
>The men of the 7th Kings Own Scottish Borderers (K.S.O.B.) were under heavy shell fire the morning of Spetember 25, 1915. If that was not enough to unnerve the soldiers, a cloud of poison gas began to drift over their posistion. A few of the men began to cough and choke and many sucumbed rappidly to the effects of the gas. The remainder were shaken by the disturbing image they saw. The commanding officer glanced over the scene as saw Laidlaw standing with his pipes waiting orders to go ‘over the top.’
>“Pipe them together, Laidlaw, for God’s sake, pipe them together,” cried the commanding officer.
>Immediately Laidlaw climbed onto the parapet and began marching up and down the length of the trench. Bullets whizzed past him, shells burst near him, but oblivious to the danger he played, “All the Blue Bonnets Over the Border.” The effect it had on his company was almost magical. Seeing the men take courage, the commading officer gave the order to advance and shouted, “Come on, Borderers, who’ll be the first to reach the German trenches?”
TL:DR: Scotsman got so angry he charged the Germans with just his bagpipes.
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