ITT: We post interesting/comical/odd/badass people.
>pic related
Guy was captain of a lightly armored cargo ship in a convoy towards the USSR in WW2. Some U-Botes came, and diaspora was ordered on the fleet, so he made a small flotila with 3 other ships.
Trying to avoid other potential attacks, he headed up north, but didn't have a map on him for where he was, and got his flotilla stuck in ice. Since they where sitting ducks for any bombers, he took out paint brushes and white paint, and told everyone to paint the ships white. He took some tanks out, not know how they work, but told crewmates to use them as anti-aircraft if they see enemies.
Lucky for him is that they broke free with no planes seen, and tried to find there way back by using a pocket atlas and some sheer luck. Eventually, a small group of allied ships found his group, and took him to a port in Russia.
The trip was more or less a success, as they did get the goods to Russia, despite being a bit late.
>Source
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Gradwell
>>437257
Khan Sternberg. I win
>>437257
Adrian von Fölkersam
>In early August 1942, a Brandenburger unit of 62 Baltic and Sudeten Germans led by von Fölkersam penetrated farther into enemy territory than any other German unit. They had been ordered to seize and secure the vital Maikop oilfields. Disguised as men of the dreaded Soviet security police, the NKVD, and driving Soviet trucks, Fölkersam's unit passed through the Soviet front lines and moved deep into hostile territory. The Brandenburgers ran into a large group of Red Army deserters fleeing from the front. Fölkersam saw an opportunity to use them to the unit's advantage. By persuading them to return to the Soviet cause, he was able to join with them and move almost at will through the Russian lines.
>Operating under the false identity of NKVD Major Truchin, based in Stalingrad, Fölkersam explained his role in recovering the deserters to the Soviet commander in charge of Maikop's defences. The commander not only believed Fölkersam, but the next day gave him a personal tour of the city's defenses. By August 8, the German spearheads were only 12 miles away and the Brandenburgers made their move. Using grenades to simulate an artillery attack, they knocked out the military communications centre for the city. Fölkersam then went to the Russian defenders and told them that a withdrawal was taking place. Having seen Fölkersam with their commander and lacking any communications to rebut or confirm his statement, the Soviets began to evacuate Maikop. The German spearhead entered the city without a fight on August 9, 1942.
Pc related: Best Friend Otto Skorzeny (center Left and Folkersam (center right) touring Budapest which they pacified together.
>>437339
Wait, so he captured a city with no one dying directly? Pretty fucking tall order.
The British figured all the equipment they left behind at Dieppe was rendered useless.
They did not count on Alfred Becker (standing behind Erwin Rommel in the field cap) His workshop in France converted thousands of vehicles into German fielded equipment over the course of the war.
>>437357
Dieppe and Dunkirk*
Leo Major
>The day of the D-day invasion he killed a squad of German soldiers and captured a truck with intelligence information. Later down his career, he ran into 4 SS soldiers and killed all of them, losing an eye to a phosphorous grenade but refused to discharge.
>During the Battle of the Scheldt, he captured 93 German soldiers and refused the medal, claiming the General awarding it was incompetent.
>In the beginning of 1945, he was in a vehicle that struck a land mine. He broke both ankles, 4 ribs, and fractured 3 vertebrae. He still would not go home and continued.
That same year, he and his best friend Willie went on a reconnaissance mission to scope out how many Germans were in the town.
>Willie was shot early in the mission and Leo lost his sh!t. He went down the streets of the town guns blazing and throwing grenades, tricking the Germans into thinking he was an army. He captured over a 100 soldiers and killed several more later on and single handedly took back the town of Zwolle.
Is this just a WW2 interesting/comical/odd/badass people thread now?
>>437357
is this shopped?
>>437406
Becker and Rommel became pretty good friends when you consider just how much of his conversions ended up in his Afrika Korps. Becker was renown, even granted a personal display of his engineering to Hitler himself, who was so impressed he ordered Becker to field two divisions worth of equipment.
>>437257
>hang Zongchang's nickname of the Dogmeat General came from a fondness for gambling, especially for the game Pai Gow which Northeastern Chinese called "eating dog meat". He kept some thirty to fifty concubines of different nationalities, including Koreans, Japanese, White Russians, French and Americans, each of whom were given numbers since he could not remember their names nor speak their language. Zhang Zongchang was free with his gifts, lavishly squandering money and concubines on superiors and friends. As a result, Zhang's commanders were much loyal to him, contributing to his martial success. According to the wife of Wellington Koo:
'[Zhang] was known everywhere as the "Three Don't Knows" (Chinese: 三不知; pinyin: sān bù zhī). He said he didn't know how much money he had, how many concubines, or how many men in his army.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Zongchang
alpha as fuk
>>437474
>assassinates cousin of puyi
>15 days jail time
lel
>>437506
>build an army of armoured trains
Dude was fucking crazy in a good kinda way
>>437393
Race traitor.
