The following is an encore presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily.

This week I'm going to be publishing some of my favorite episodes from 2021,

and I will be back again with brand new episodes on Monday, January 3rd, 2022.

When you think of battles involving swords and longbows,

you're probably thinking back to the time of Braveheart,

or maybe the Battle of Aguncourt.

But what if I told you that those weapons were being used much more recently

in a modern mechanized war?

Well, at least one guy was using them in World War II.

Learn more about Mad Jack Churchill,

the man who brought ancient weapons to a modern war

on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. The Jack Churchill was born John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill in the then

British Territory of Ceylon in 1906. His life reads like an adventure novel

for boys from the era of the British Empire. If there were a contest for the

most interesting man in the world when he was alive, he most certainly would have been on the short list.

His father was a civil engineer.

After his stint and Ceylon, his family moved to Hong Kong where he became the director

of Public Works.

Jack was sent to school on the Isle of Man and then attended the Royal Military

College at Sandhurst and graduated in 1926 when he began his military career.

And what a career it was! He was assigned to Burma with the 2nd Battalion, aka the Manchester Regiment.

While in Burma he taught himself how to play the bagpipes, and he also purchased a motorcycle which he drove across the entirety of Burma and India.

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