Were there ever really any ONE MAN ARMY soldiers? I mean is there any historical evidence of a single or maybe even a pair of soldiers dropped behind enemy lines to do some major military operating? In any country and/or military.
Were there ever really any ONE MAN ARMY soldiers? I mean is there any historical evidence of a single or maybe even a pair of soldiers dropped behind enemy lines to do some major military operating? In any country and/or military.
Marcus Scaeva
The Berserker at stamford bridge
Horatio Cocles
Thanks, this is the kinda shit I enjoy reading about.
During the 15 or 1600s apperently there was a dude who used a crude, early breathing apparatus to drill holes and set fire to a turkish fleet because they kidnapped his fiancee.
Can't tell you more. When I was a kid I had a big fat Reader's Digest book about the Oceans and this story was included.
jesus you can really tell stallone previously tore the frick out of his pec
Doppelsöldner were mercenaries in Germany in the 1500's that got paid double to fight exclusively on the front lines and in risky situations
A lot of them used giant zweihanders that could keep back multiple adversaries due to the reach
They were part of pike formations though, and just a specialized position part of a larger team meant to break enemy pike formations. They were the German equivalent of Rodaleros in Spanish pike formations. I mention this as Germans and Spaniards both fought under the same emperor during this time period and utilized somewhat similar tactics.
Neither were really "one man army", and both fell before the French armored calvary.
>cavalry beating pike formations
uh... wh.. what? no. and heavy cavalry charges were not popular in this time because they didnt work.
You don't need to aim when you're all greased up in baby oil.
Mad Jack Churchill.
My high school was named after a guy who took out like five dozen chinks in Korea with a machine gun while covering a retreat and then took out ten more with a bayonet when he ran out of ammo.
>I know of a real life Rambo
>but I won’t fricking tell you his name
It was Miyamura High School. It's named after Hershey Miyamura, this nice little old Japanese guy who you'd occasionally see around town and never suspect that he has killed more chinks than poorly built escalators have.
I just read all about him. I used to pass through Gallup all the time. Wish I could have shook the old dude's hand one of those times. MOH for slotting commie chinks, based.
Leo Major. Basically captured an entire town single-handedly.
>a single or maybe even a pair of soldiers dropped behind enemy lines to do some major military operating
Force 136 and Jedburgh teams. They often found themselves operating in 2s or even alone behind the front line and deep in enemy-occupied territory, although their jobs was mainly to link up with and organise local partisan resistance.
F Spencer Chapman for one led a 3-man team shooting up Japs in the immediate months following the invasion of Malaya. After that they split up and he became somewhat dependent on Chinese guerillas, but the point is they were alone or in pairs most of the time.
Master Sergeant Raul Perez "Roy" Benavidez
Sure. They even made a comic book about him.
Goliath, in the Bible
>historical evidence where
its in the bible you godless heretics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Severloh
> Severloh says he manned a MG 42 machine gun,[12] and fired on approaching American troops with the machine gun and two Karabiner 98k rifles; while a sergeant whom he did not know, kept him supplied with ammunition from a nearby ammo bunker until 15:30. He claimed to have fired over 13,500 rounds with the machine gun and 400 with the rifles.
>Interviewed in 2004, he said: "It was definitely at least 1,000 men, most likely more than 2,000. But I do not know how many men I shot. It was awful. Thinking about it makes me want to throw up
God bless him
jesus
do the numbers add up tho? i dont know much about machine gun durability but could the barrel last 13,500 rounds of full auto? obviously it was sporadic but still, this guy's going to hell lmao
>What are swappable barrels?
>Going to hell for bravely defending your country in the face of overwhelming force.
Get bent.
Cute machinegunner
Achilles is the archetype, of course.
But I'd say the historical Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo both qualify - "mentioned in dispatches" by J Caesar, each sallied forth from an quasi-invested fort like an old school wrestling superstar and started dropping Gauls to the cheers of the men in camp.
Vorenus saved Pullo when the Gauls started to get the better of him.
>THIS HISTORICAL THREAD BROVGHT TO YOV BY SOLONIVS BREAD
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It was funny they actually took out the scene from Gladiator where they had the main character shilling products after he became famed in the arena, because they thought audiences would have considered it too unbelievable.
David.
ITT: lies upon lies. Lone survivor tier bullshit
ITT: the most blatantly lying burger fricks
Reality can often be stranger than fiction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_L._Salomon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_Häyhä
Only guy I've ever heard of doing the shit you see in action movies was John Ripley
David B. Bleak is one of my favorite stories. I don't know that there are really soldiers that are one man armies and rather soldiers who have one man army moments.
David B. Bleak: What happens when you piss off a gentle giant blue collar farmer.
>Is a combat medic
>His patrol gets surprise attacked by a chinese fortification
>After being wounded David charges 5 chinese soldiers, killing 4 with his bare hands (Crushed two mens skulls together, crushed another man's windpipe, tackled another and snapped his neck) and stabbing the last.
>Crushed two mens skulls together
The plausibility of Simo Hayha's kill count has been talked about over the years, but how many other of these stories are complete bullshit but still get repeated over the years? I'm honestly starting to think a large portion if not most are either stories made up by the guy who supposedly accomplished them, or recruitment propaganda.
otto skorzeny and col rex applegate
Simo Heyha or whatever the frick
Alvin York
Audie Murphy
Joe Benevidez
You've had single soldiers who have managed to overcome incredible odds on their lonesome.
But if one or two dudes are being dropped behind enemy lines to do operating isn't that more of an intelligence thing?
A coupl eof years ago there was that gurkha soldier in India who singlehandledly beat off several dozen robbers who had stormed the train and were assaulting the passengers. Killed two or three with his kukhri, wounded a bunch of others and drove them out of the train.
Master Sergant Jerry "Mad Dog" Schriver legendary SOG leader is worth a mention.
https://scatteredshots.com/2021/10/08/jerry-mad-dog-shriver/