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 about

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

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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.

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