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Post the greatest operators in history
>pic super fucking related
>>28485170
>>28485170
Lloyd Burke. Makes Rambo look like a pansy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_L._Burke
>"At Hill 200, Burke managed to kill over one-hundred men, decimate two mortar emplacements, and three machine-gun nests. For his actions, he was awarded the Medal of Honor at a White House ceremony on April 11, 1952."
>>28485170
Larry Thorne. That glorious Finnish bastard spent three wars and thirty years fighting Communism, even if by coincidence.
He's the kind of guy we all hope to be, in a way...
who's that guy who was stoned off of weed and held off an enemy attack with a m60 during the Vietnam war?
thought that was pretty operator level sense he was high.
>>28485268
Lauri Törni; Cross of Mannheim, an Iron Cross, a Bronze star, and a Purple heart. i'd gay him so hard.
>>28485306
Pity the fight cost him his life. No homo.
>>28485282
He probably wouldn't have been to do it if he wasn't high.
>>28485306
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQiBehhrwBg
Probably non of you even know who this is...
>>28485482
germans? i hope so
>>28485306
>>28485268
>>28485170
>>28485306
Don't forget the Legion of merit and the distinguished flying cross.
>>28485561
how this man isn't a saint of /k/ubism i have no idea.
Sepp Allerberger
Simo Hayha was a 5'3 manlet but he was a good operator
>>28485541
No, Israelis.
The man in the front is Meir Har-Zion. Known by the local ethos as "the soldier that every man should strife his whole life to be like". He created and commanded several commando units that today are considered among the best in the world.
He is known in Israel as "one of the greatest soldiers that ever lived" or simply as "the best soldier in the IDF".
Tough being a humble man and a farmer for most of his, the hundreds of operations he participated in are a matter of legends and he has streets in every city named after him, as well as a mountain in his name.
>>28485633
"Good operator" is somewhat lightly said...
Otto Skorzeny
>>28485184
Is that a woman?
Honestly I'm not sure I care, but I guess I'd still like to know.
>>28485170
This handsome motherfucker.
Joined British commandos after Nazi invasion of Denmark.
From private to major in 4 years, leading commando/SBS raids, ultimately dying to complete his mission.
Victoria Cross, Military Cross & Two Bars
This guy was pretty good at removing Japs.
Do leaders still count as operators?
>>28485322
He died in a helicopter crash.
>>28485255
Breddy hardcore
*cough*
>>28485801
The helicopter was a communist spy.
*double cough*
>>28485765
>Kwon Yul.
Yi Sun-Sin is a better candidate from that era, IMO
Irl Captain America
Operater as fuck
>>28485620
>a person who never even existed
>>28485717
Well, that's a fairly simple thing to aspire to when all your enemies are unarmed Arabs.
>>28486035
The greatest man to ever live.
If you don't share this you're not American. The statue is hand carved and is a monument for The legend
Olavi Alakulppi (1915 – 1990) was a Finnish cross country skier and a Knight of the Mannerheim Cross. Alakulppi served in all three of Finland's WWII conflicts: The Winter War (1939-40), The Continuation War (1941-44), and The Lapland War (1944-45). He advanced from sergeant to captain during the war. He received two Mannerheim Crosses (2nd Class) and two Crosses of Liberty. He also received the Iron Cross (2nd Class) of the German army during the war. After WWII Alakulppi moved to the U.S.A
>>28486285
sababa ahi.
>>28486179
God bless MattV
>>28486358
>>28486324
>tfw people actually believe he is a legend, and ignore the fact he was a proven liar.
>>28486405
In b4 shitstorm
>>28486035
A short man from Texas, a man of the wild.
"Mad Jack" Churchill. Last man to kill an enemy in combat with a longbow, was involved in Operation Archery, took a German observation post and 42 prisoners in Salerno, captured in the Adriatic and then escaped from Sachsenhausen. Not too shabby even if he did end up captured a couple times.
>>28485331
Kinda like that pitcher that threw a no-hitter on acid?
Remember kids, if you want to be an operator, eat your vegatables. -Mattv2099
No Brian chontosh?
No John ripley?
Where is my core?
>>28485717
This guy was a loose canon. Less operator more serial killer. Guess for the IDF that's heroic
>>28485170
He was wounded 14 times over 54 months of combat, was awarded the Medal of Honor, 8 Purple Hearts, 1 Distinguished Service Cross,[a] 1 Silver Star, and 4 Bronze Stars. He was nominated for the Medal of Honor three separate times. He did not receive either of the first two Medals of Honor he was nominated for because those actions were performed in countries where the U.S. was fighting covertly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Howard
Might as well post this here:
http://www.mannerheim-ristinritarit.fi/ritarit?xm_ksort=s
You need to either learn Finnish or use a translator but there are some great stories behind the crosses.
>>28486325
And Elvis was his personal chauffeur.
Pierre Ortiz
Born in US to a rich French father, gets the preppy life, drops outs out of college due to boredom, joins the French Foreign Legion at seventeen in 1934. fights barbers in North Africa becomes an officer despite being a foreigner and earns the Croix de guerre with two palms, the Croix de combattant and the Medaille militaire. Gets out in 37 then supposedly "runs away to the circus" in America. When the war breaks out he boards a boat to France which is sunk by a German U-boat, he gets picked up by a French Destroyer and re-enlists. Gets wounded in France and put in a POW camp which he escapes; escaping to Spain and then America.
Enlists in the Marine Corps. First inspection at Paris Island shows up with all of his medals from the Legion >his service in which he had not mentioned
put in OSS placed behind enemy lines, fights with resistance.
Goes under cover as a fashion designer in Paris. In a bar drinking with some nazis who are cursing America, FDR, and this American Marine who had been running around killing them. Goes to his car comes back in his uniform and two pistols, makes them toast FDR, Elenor, America, and the Marine Corp.
Walks into a German prison dressed as a Wehrmacht officer and breaks out several British Airmen.
Finally trapped in a small town with his team of four, surrounded by a german battalion. They finally surrender in exchange for the townspeople's safety.
>The Germans think their fighting at least a company are shocked to see 4 ragged Marines.
Sent to another POW camp for the rest of the war.
Afterwards he retired as a colonel in the Corp. Helps found Toys-for-Tots, supposedly did operations for the CIA, and became an actor in movies such as Rio Grande.
Dies in 1988 from cancer
Really good book called "To Live a Man's Life" by Laura Lacey about him.
God-Tier Operator
>>28485717
nobody cares fag
>>28486035
>he can't even re-enact his feats in WW2 on a movie about him because audience would think they were too ridiculous
>>28488306
>fights barbers in North Africa
>>28486511
THROWN INTO COMBAT, WHERE BODIES LIE PILED
This guy was a fucking human tank.
>>28489142
Berbers*
