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March 16, 2018, 10:40 AM | #1 |
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Who survived the most gunshot wounds?
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Sir Huston Mc Greggar. With a total of 34 gunshot wounds to different parts of his body. |
March 16, 2018, 03:25 PM | #2 |
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Darn.....he's only got 33 more than me! Close.
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March 16, 2018, 04:15 PM | #3 |
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Well, I don't know; but I came across a well documented tale of a fellow who seemingly could not be killed. Recovering from grievous wounds again and again, he continued to be sent back for more. The last living recipient of the military version of the Pour le Mérite, i.e., Blue Max, he lived to the ripe age of 102. A very unlikely, yet true story; here's the details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_J%C3%BCnger
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Not necessarily gunshot wounds, although he had several. But Roy Benavidez survived more physical damage and lived through it than anyone else I've heard of.
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March 16, 2018, 05:55 PM | #5 |
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I always appreciate it when we validate our statements with a link or at least give a reference for where more information can be found. Especially so when folks are quoting the Founding Fathers, like so often happens in some of the tag-lines. So, who is Mc Greggar?
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March 17, 2018, 07:45 AM | #9 |
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Only two soldiers from my home town, died in Vietnam. One young guy was a friend mine. I told him to avoid it like the plague. He did not listen to me. I am back from there 50 years, and I still have no idea what was going on. My father was vehemently against the Vietnam conflict; and he had 3+++ years in the Burma jungle during WW2. ( OSS 101 ). He called the Vietnam conflict: "The 100 yard dash for people with no sense of direction". I think he heard that on Monty Python, but it was the best description for sure.
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March 17, 2018, 04:09 PM | #10 |
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jimsouth - wasn't OSS 101 the successor to Merrill's Marauders? Have you read American Guerrilla? Can you tell us more things about your father?
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March 17, 2018, 06:45 PM | #11 |
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Keep thinking about the guy that took on Matt Dillon week after week at the start of each show....
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March 17, 2018, 07:28 PM | #12 |
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A guy here survived being shot 18 times.
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March 17, 2018, 10:08 PM | #13 |
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Rembrandt - have you seen this one of Matt Dillon in Gunsmoke?
https://youtu.be/Ncgs7JfW_7k
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March 18, 2018, 08:53 AM | #14 |
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I met 3 of the men who served with my father in Burma. I remember a comment from one of them, concerning Merrill ( since my father & 40 other Americans were there quite some time before Merrill ). He said, Sarge, remember Merrill & his men dragging those poor mules up & down those ravines in Burma, when the roads were open & secure? Who was the lunatic who planned that? I still have an original Kukri knife that actually took heads off. After the war, my father ( who was a 1st Sgt ) was offered a commission to teach jungle warfare; but the malaria, dengue fever, dysentery, & God knows what else, took too much of a toll. Besides, my father told them, he had already digested enough human misery. I have a photo of my dad, and I'll try to post it. FULL BATTLE GEAR in Burma. Boots, shorts, no shirt, a rag hat; and a Thompson slung over his shoulder.
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March 18, 2018, 08:57 AM | #15 |
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At the wars end, my dad was ordered to burn all records. He followed orders. When he got back to the states, he was not checked once. He could have brought back any records that covered critical moves if he wanted to. What a story/book that would have made.,
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Thanks JimSouth. . The book I mentioned talked about all the illnesses that affected the men there. I'd leave the place to the Japanese and let them all get killed by nature. Can't say I blame your father for wanting to return to civilian life.
During Korea, my father was sent to Panama and trained in jungle warfare. It was in anticipation of bailing out the French in Vietnam.
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One of my buddies at our local VFW club house was struck by mortar shrapnel in three places within his legs. He has walked with a cane ever since.
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I was in the Portsmouth Naval Hospital in 68. All the time I spent in Vietnam & not a scratch. I come back to the states to finish my enlistment; and while working in a ship's engine room, I get wailed on my hand by a sledge hammer. Had to have a finger sown back on. Vietnam, not a scratch, back in the states, WHAM !!! GOD WILL HAVE HIS JOKES !!! I was in two helicopter crashes. Both times, Tail Rotors. First time a hit, second time, the rotor just flew apart. The pilots recovered quickly, but we still went down; and thankfully, neither time was high altitude. Since then, I'm not a big fan of flying.
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My father told me, the spotter planes, I believe he called them B planes, would be on a short strip for takeoff. The tail wheel would be tied to a tree with a rope, and they would rev the engine up; and when the plane was bouncing up and down trying to get airborne, someone would cut the rope with an axe, and it would shoot out of the gate like a scalded dog. I can't say it's dead on true; but it's a good story; and if it ain't true, it otta be.
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March 18, 2018, 10:23 AM | #21 |
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This has wandered way off-topic. Miscellaneous military nostalgia isn't our thing. Closed.
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