LarrySun: The Best Hollywood Could Come Up With:

Audie Murphy (Audie Murphy) from To Hell and Back: (Image 1)

In To Hell and Back , Audie Murphy plays Audie Murphy, a badass war hero who proves his worth on the battlefield with his awesome badassery. The movie was the highest-grossing film Universal made, a record it held for 20 years until the making of Jaws . That's right, they actually needed a movie
about a giant, man-eating, shark to top Audie Murphy's awesomeness.

Why it Doesn't Compare:

When some Hollywood producer wanted to make a movie based on Murphy's autobiography, he was determined to have Murphy play himself in the film.

Murphy was afraid people would see the complete insane awesomeness the
story had to offer, and think he was embellishing or trying to cash in on his
fame, so he actually had them take parts out for fear that they wouldn't be
believable to a Hollywood audience. Seriously.

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..and they still got medals?

You can't get a medal with a fabricated war story.

LarrySun: #2. Alvin York (Image 1)

Who Was He?

Born to a family of redneck farmers from Tennessee, Alvin York spent much
of his youth getting piss drunk in bars and getting into crazy barfights. When
his friend got killed in one of the aforementioned barfights, he swore off the
liquor, and became a pacifist. When he received his draft notice in 1917, York
filed as a "conscientious objector" but was denied. They shipped his *ss out to basic training.

About a year later, he was one of 17 men designated to sneak around and take out a fortified machine-gun encampment guarding a German railroad. As they were approaching, the gunners spotted them and opened fire, tearing nine of the men to pieces.

What's left of York's troupe (Image 2).

The few survivors that didn't have enormous balls of steel ran away, leaving
York standing there taking fire from 32 heavy machine gunners. As he said in his diary,

"I didn't have time to dodge behind a tree or dive into the brush, I didn't even
have time to kneel or lie down. I had no time no how to do nothing but watch
them-there German machine gunners and give them the best I had. Every
time I seed a German I just touched him off. At first I was shooting from a
prone position; that is lying down; just like we often shoot at the targets in the shooting matches in the mountains of Tennessee; and it was just about the same distance. But the targets here were bigger. I just couldn't miss a
German's head or body at that distance. And I didn't."

After he killed the first 20 men or so, a German lieutenant got five guys
together to try to take this guy from the side. York pulled out his Colt .45
(which only had eight bullets) and killed all of them with it, a practice he
likened to "shoot[ing] wild turkeys back home ." (Image 3)

At this point lieutenant Paul Jurgen Vollmer yelled out over the noise asking if York was English. See, in WWI, no one really took the Americans very
seriously, and everyone thought of them as the rookies. Vollmer figured this
crazy/awesome/ballsy soldier must be some kind of English superman who
was showing these sissy Americans how it was done. When York said he was American, Vollmer replied "Good Lord! If you won't shoot any more I will make them give up."

Ten minutes later, 133 men came walking towards the remains of York's
battalion. Lieutenant Woods, York's superior at first thought it was a German
counter-attack until he saw York, who saluted and said "Corporal York reports with prisoners, sir." When the stunned officer asked how many, York replied "Honest, Lieutenant, I don't know."

AlfaSeltzer: Major Uchendu.

Biafran Badass. Destroyed 75% of Nigerian 2nd division in Abagana in 1968, with a single bullet.


Even Hollywood is yet to come up with an alternative.

LarrySun: #3. Jack Churchill

Who Was He?

An allied commander in WWII, and an avid fan of surfing, Captain Jack
Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill aka "Fighting Jack Churchill" aka "Mad
Jack" was basically the craziest motherf*cker in the whole damn war.
He volunteered for commando duty, not actually knowing what it entailed, but knowing that it sounded dangerous, and therefore fun. He is best known for saying that "any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed" and, in following with this, for carrying a sword into battle. In WWII.

And not one of those sissy ceremonial things the Marines have. No, Jack
carried a fucking claymore. And he used it, too. He is credited with capturing a total of 42 Germans and a mortar squad in the middle of the night, using only his sword.

Churchill and his team were tasked with capturing a German fortification
creatively called "Point 622." Churchill took the lead, charging ahead of the
group into the dark through the barbed wire and mines, pitching grenades as
he went. Although his unit did their best to catch up, all but six of them were
lost to silly things like death. Of those six, half were wounded and all any of
them had left were pistols. Then a mortar shell swung in and killed/mortally
wounded everyone who wasn't Jack Churchill.

When the Germans found him, he was playing "Will Ye No Come Back Again?" on his bagpipes. Oh, we didn't mention that? He carried them right next to his big freaking sword.

After being sent to a concentration camp, he got bored and left. Just walked
out. They caught him again, and sent him to a new camp. So he left again.
After walking 150 miles with only a rusty can of onions for food, he was picked up by the Americans and sent back to Britain, where he demanded to be sent back into the field, only to find out (with great disappointment) the war had ended while he was on his way there. As he later said to his friends, "If it wasn't for those damn Yanks, we could have kept the war going another 10 years!"

UjSizzle: And Murphy, Murphy was great too.




I think I might read this 10 more times before calling it a night

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bolaino: white death is a natural born killer, no wonder he tops the list. white death rocks.