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Currahee Chris

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Hey LB- thought you'd dig this (and a few of the fellas here on the forum as well)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12854492

that's right, he used his tripod when he was fresh outta lead.

His tripod!!!

Field expediency to the utmost!! ^&grin

Feel bad for all you WW2 nuts out there- so many cool stories like this going on right under our noses.........
 
Currahee Chris said:
Hey LB- thought you'd dig this (and a few of the fellas here on the forum as well)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12854492

that's right, he used his tripod when he was fresh outta lead.

His tripod!!!

Field expediency to the utmost!! ^&grin

Feel bad for all you WW2 nuts out there- so many cool stories like this going on right under our noses.........
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What a hero, how can the opposition hope to win!. Used his tripod, the bloke has stones of steel.

Chris, I have a great WW2 Gurkha story for you.

I read a statement from a British officer some years back who was in charge of Gurkhas at Monte Cassino Italy. He was inspecting the front line one evening when he ducked into a Gurkha Dugout and found a small group of the soldiers all in fits of hysterical laughter, after watching them laughing he asked them to let him in on the joke, they told him the following.

They'd been on patrol and came across a German dugout in which all three of the soldiers inside had fallen asleep with exhaustion, pretty much in a line. Without waking the German in the middle of the three, they killed and decapitated the two Germans on either end and left their heads on their feet.

They were all laughing at what that soldier in the middle must have thought when he awoke.Grim humour indeed, but hey we needed guys who were good at killing Germans. Apparently the Germans feared the Gurkhas for this very sort of thing.

Can you imagine the effect on German morale, if they thought that if they fell asleep a Gurkha would come along and cut their head off in the night!!

Rob
 
Currahee Chris said:
Hey LB- thought you'd dig this (and a few of the fellas here on the forum as well)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12854492

that's right, he used his tripod when he was fresh outta lead.

His tripod!!!

Field expediency to the utmost!! ^&grin

Feel bad for all you WW2 nuts out there- so many cool stories like this going on right under our noses.........
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Great story Chris! Thanks for letting me in on it.

You know how I feel about Gurkhas: pound for pound the toughest men who ever walked the face of the earth.:salute::
 
Rob said:
What a hero, how can the opposition hope to win!. Used his tripod, the bloke has stones of steel.

Chris, I have a great WW2 Gurkha story for you.

I read a statement from a British officer some years back who was in charge of Gurkhas at Monte Cassino Italy. He was inspecting the front line one evening when he ducked into a Gurkha Dugout and found a small group of the soldiers all in fits of hysterical laughter, after watching them laughing he asked them to let him in on the joke, they told him the following.

They'd been on patrol and came across a German dugout in which all three of the soldiers inside had fallen asleep with exhaustion, pretty much in a line. Without waking the German in the middle of the three, they killed and decapitated the two Germans on either end and left their heads on their feet.

They were all laughing at what that soldier in the middle must have thought when he awoke.Grim humour indeed, but hey we needed guys who were good at killing Germans. Apparently the Germans feared the Gurkhas for this very sort of thing.

Can you imagine the effect on German morale, if they thought that if they fell asleep a Gurkha would come along and cut their head off in the night!!

Rob
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I was hanging out with a West German Special Forces officer, responsible for training their special forces in killing with knives, back in the late 1980's or early 1990's in Heidelberg Germany. The officer's father was a Waffen SS trooper in Italy and was at Monte Cassino. The West German officer was about 6'4, and he told me his father was even taller. He told me that his father told him he was only scared of one thing: Gurkhas. The Gurkhas would apparently sneak into German positions at night and silently massacre everyone with their Kukris.

If I ever were asked to lead troops into combat, and given my choice of who to lead, Gurkhas would be on the top of my list.
 
Louis Badolato said:
If I ever were asked to lead troops into combat, and given my choice of who to lead, Gurkhas would be on the top of my list.
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right behind the American soldier right LB?? ;);)

Of all the stories of their daring do, we rarely, if ever hear the ones of the Ghurka who assaulted the MG34 nest thinking the guys were asleep and got riddled into swiss cheese now do we??? ^&grin^&grin

They are tenacious little buggers and very very glad they are on our side!!
 
My father was with the Canadian army in Italy in WWII and I did hear similar stories from him about the Gurkhas and their knives - ones he said he saw personally.

Terry
 
There are also stories of trench raids during WW1 in which Gurkhas returned with German heads for trophies that were hung on Trench walls.

Rob
 
Currahee Chris said:
Here's another fun one...............

http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=27100
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The guy takes on 40 dacoits, kills three, wounds another 8, drives the rest off the train and saves a young girl from being raped. In the great hero's own words:

“Fighting the enemy in battle is my duty as a soldier; taking on the dacoits in the train was my duty as a human being,” said the Indian army nayak, who has been given two guards during his month-long holidays in Nepal.

“I am proud to be able to prove that a Gorkha soldier with a khukuri is really a handful. I would have been a meek spectator had I not carried that khukuri,” he said.
 
During the Falklands conflict my Uncle Keith was with 42 commando and, during night action at Mount Harriet took several prisoners. In the early hours of the morning after the action the prisoners were sat in a group and, were then handed over to the Gurkhas. The argentine troops and conscripts looked nervous and aggitated one began to cry and ran to my Uncle and two other commandos they were so scared of the reputation of the Gurkhas. They feared the worse. They had tried to beat Para's and commando's without any hope but, the psychological effect of the Gurkhas was enourmous.

''It is better to die than to be a coward'' is more than a motto for these guys. I am privaledged to know some through my uncle
Mitch
 
Mitch said:
During the Falklands conflict my Uncle Keith was with 42 commando and, during night action at Mount Harriet took several prisoners. In the early hours of the morning after the action the prisoners were sat in a group and, were then handed over to the Gurkhas. The argentine troops and conscripts looked nervous and aggitated one began to cry and ran to my Uncle and two other commandos they were so scared of the reputation of the Gurkhas. They feared the worse. They had tried to beat Para's and commando's without any hope but, the psychological effect of the Gurkhas was enourmous.

''It is better to die than to be a coward'' is more than a motto for these guys. I am privaledged to know some through my uncle
Mitch
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I was told that the Gurkhas were told to smile at their captives. No wonder the Argies got nervous. A little Gurkha fingering his kukhri and grinning all over his face? Definitely something to warrant putting the biological washing powder to it's ultimate test! Trooper
 
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