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.
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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.
Borderline insane heroism
Thomas Moore
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Jason Hall
Henry Bennett
Hooktube doesn't do anything, use invidio.us from now on.
Jayden Sullivan
And another one because I'm a filthy Poleophile.
>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.
Andrew Clark
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
Isaac Cruz
look at people who won the medal of honor, especially the ones who didnt even use guns.
Hunter White
The time when a crazy leaf in the coast guard saved 500 marines by using himself as a human shield.
Hunter Young
Everything he did.
Jordan Morales
If you're asking for personal favourites go for Paul Kenna, or Aiden Liddel.
Connor Miller
Carl Klinke
Shitpostan and Akbaring before either was cool.
Grayson Robinson
Neall ellis
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.
Carter Jackson
That one just sounds like pure insanity but I respect him.
William Clark
Leave
Luis Campbell
Fuck off faggot
Isaiah Hall
So what happened to him after 2002?
Joseph Bell
The rumor was he was still out there fighting ISIS circa ~2010.
Hunter Watson
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
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.
Bentley Ward
en.wikipedia.org
>manages to drag out most of the team and three NVA for potential intel
Must be the heyahoya and Aztec insanity.
Lucas Brooks
Sounds totally badass. Anyone have a documentary or any more info on him?
Nathan Lewis
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Hunter Bell
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.
Thanks for the contribution to the thread, swede.
Nathan Hernandez
Does Klinke mean something or is that part of the shitposting? Know anything else about him?
Isaiah Hall
What is up with the older generation and spitting? Seems so strange to me.
Jaxson Morris
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.
Jacob King
>'BAREHANDED.'
>Kills TWENTY.
Parker Diaz
Who was the Australian soldier that would attack German trenches armed with only a bag of mills bombs?
Isaac Martin
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.
Leo Wright
anti vaxxers BTFO
still contributing
Asher Torres
Yeah but “Ich bin (name) isn’t grammatically correct and only really started seeing use after Englishification.
Ah okay, I tried looking up what Klinke meant but didn’t find anything except names, but that makes sense. What a guy.
His last name is similar to my ancestors’ and I’ve never seen any similar names before (other than Hogan’s Heroes) so he might have been a distant relative since my family came from Pomerania. There’s a German wiki article on him but I don’t think it really states any of his family.
Dominic Robinson
But big knife and grenades are the French Foreign Legion way of fighting.
Xavier Davis
Ryan Sanchez
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Blake Price
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.
Daniel Reyes
Zig Forums's resident poleophile back here with a new post for you
Josiah Wilson
Jack Nguyen
HAPAS ARE SUPERIOR TO WHITES
Ethan Ortiz
Nolan Johnson
Sounds neat, but do you got a source for that?
Anthony Jackson
HAPAS ARE SUPERIOR TO WHITES
Colton Rivera
(checked)
Hudson Nguyen
HAPAS ARE SUPERIOR TO WHITES
Colton Miller
HAPAS ARE SUPERIOR TO WHITES
Kevin Davis
en.wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
TL;DR
Gets goyed without warning and keeps going
Caleb Gomez
Gary Wetzel
Brandon Howard
Conspicuously absent, the name of the nation attacking the ship.
Carson Perez
It just so happened to be the only medal of honor that was awarded in secret too
Justin Martinez
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).
Michael Gray
It actually does say the nation, just not in the citation.
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.
Easton Stewart
It's right there in the wikipedia link that you posted
Cameron Richardson
Read Gunship Ace about him, can be had for pretty cheap from (((amazon))).
Jaxon Ward
3846 suicide youtube stream in 20 minutes gg/Xq2uYaa
Lincoln Torres
4535 suicide youtube stream in 20 minutes gg/Xq2uYaa
Leo Walker
2124best trap honeypot gg/Xq2uYaa
Aiden Turner
That deserves a Hollywood movie, I wonder why one hasn't been made yet…
Grayson Barnes
Don't forget to archive things like that.
Matthew Wilson
ARDITI!
Is there anything more heroic than running against enemy's fire to breach their line equipped only with daggers and hand-grenades?