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  • General George S. Patton – “Patton”

    Source “No damn bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor damn bastard die for his country.” MoreReport Item navigation Previous submission Next submission View full list More

  • Gunnery Sergeant Hartman – “Full Metal Jacket”

    Source “Well it looks to me like the best part of you ran down the crack of your momma’s ass and ended up as a brown stain on the mattress! I think you’ve been cheated!” MoreReport Item navigation Previous submission Next submission View full list More

  • Captain Virgil Hilts – “The Great Escape”

    “Wait a minute. You aren’t seriously suggesting that if I get through the wire… and case everything out there… and don’t get picked up… to turn myself in and get thrown back in the cooler for a couple of months so you can get the information you need?” MoreReport Item navigation Previous submission Next submission […] More

  • Henry Knox

    Source Knox was tasked by General Washington in the American Revolution with transporting cannons from Fort Ticonderoga. He moved the cannons via ox-drawn sleds over 300 miles of winter terrain until they arrived at Dorchester Heights forcing the British arm to evacuate. Knox was also responsible for managing the logistics of General Washington’s famous crossing […] More

  • Robert Townsend

    One of the least-know American spies of the American Revolution. As part of the Culper Ring in the American Revolution is it reported that not even President Washington knew his name but only regarded him by his code name, Cupler Jr. Culper Jr. was charged to monitor the movement of the British in New York. […] More

  • Nancy Wake

    Source It is easier to list everything this bad ass woman accomplished: 1929- Began working as a courier for the French Resistance Ran a safe house with her husband. Rescued downed pilots and provided new clothes and identities to help them return to Britain. (estimated to have save approx 200 pilots) 1943- Captured by the […] More

  • Virginia Hall

    Source Once considered by the Gestapo to be “the most dangerous of all Allied spies”, Hall was the first female operative of Britain’s Special Operations Executive to be sent into France. She worked in three years in France as an Allied Spy. Her cover was later blown and she escaped by hiking through the Pyrenees […] More

  • Lieutenant Colonel Matthew “The Ghost” Urban

    Source It was reported that in WW2, Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Urban, despite being severely injured and without permission, left the hospital that was treating his wounds to hitch-hike back to France and rejoin his regimen to finish the fight. Despite numerous shrapnel wounds and a bullet to the neck, Lieutenant Colonel Urban ended the second […] More

  • “Mad” Jack Churchill

    Source It’s hard to think of a more badass mental picture than this man fighting in WW2. Churchill, a British Army office, was know for charging into battle playing the bagpipes, throwing grenades, and attacking the enemy with his Scottish broadsword. Jack Churchill lived his life motto: “Any officer who goes into action without his […] More

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