http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Medicine_Crow tldr: Last war chief of the Crow nation. Still alive at age 101, because Death is afraid of him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Medicine_Crow tldr: Last war chief of the Crow nation. Still alive at age 101, because Death is afraid of him.
>He served in the Boer War, First World War, and Second World War; was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear; survived two plane crashes; tunnelled out of a POW camp; and bit off his own fingers when a doctor refused to amputate them. Describing his experiences in World War I, he wrote, "Frankly I had enjoyed the war."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 | http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1517044/The-long-view...
>Using nothing more than an iron-sighted, bolt action standard rifle, Simo killed 505 Russians during a three-month period
Veteran of the French and Indian wars. At the age of 78 he participated in the Battle of Lexington and Concorde, where he was bayoneted, beaten and shot in the face. He recovered and died of old age at 96.
After escaping a German concentration camp and walking 93 miles to Italy he was redeployed to Burma, but Japan surrendered before he could make it to India: "If it wasn't for those damn Yanks, we could have kept the war going another 10 years."
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In later years, Churchill served as an instructor at the land-air warfare school in Australia, where he became a passionate devotee of the surfboard. Back in England, he was the first man to ride the River Severn's five-foot tidal bore and designed his own board.
Seems like the only reason no one has made a movie about him is because no one would believe it.
To read about similar people, I would suggest getting a copy of this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Daily-Telegraph-Book-Military-Obitua...
Speaking of which...
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evans_Carlson Marine officer who went to China and lived alongside Mao Zedong and studied guerrilla warfare. Later formed and led a special Marine unit that was organized as a Maoist guerrilla unit.