Hungarian Army: 44M “Mace Thrower” I am always interested in Partisan warfare and weaponry and this one is amazing. Stay Alert, Armed and Dangerous!
Category: Bad Ass Files
The Deadliest Marksman’s Cold, Brave Stand
The Deadliest Marksman’s Cold, Brave Stand Who gives two shits about the number of kills? 500 or 200, it’s BEYOND AMAZING the guy did it with IRON SIGHTS in Below Zero temps! This is one of the most amazing stories of partisan resilience on historical record. Let’s all learn something from it. Stay Alert, Armed…
Know Your Weapons History: Oliver Winchester
Oliver Winchester was born in Boston, on November 30, 1810. He started his career with a clothing company based out of New York City and New Haven, Connecticut. After successfully running this aspect of his business, Winchester began to look for new opportunities. Horace Smith and Daniel Wesson (yes, that “Smith & Wesson” who later…
The Bad Ass Files: Phillipe Viannay
Descriptions of Manliness: Philippe Viannay (click on above link to be re-directed to source page) This is sort of a fusion of the Bad-Ass files and World War Two Profiles in Courage. This guy’s story And There Was Light, which went on to inspire the New York Times Bestseller All the Light We Cannot See is an…
World War II History: 8 Bad-Ass Women of WW2
Heroism — especially in times of war — tends to produce gendered associations. We think of men fighting (and dying) valiantly, while women wait passively at home for their spouses to return. The historical record produces a different picture, however. Among the many heroes of World War II are these bad-ass women. Spies, snipers, surgeons,…
Bad-Ass Files: John Coffee Hays, The Original Bad-Ass Texan!
19th century badass gunslinging Texas Ranger John Coffee Hays is the ultimate rea-life asskicker whose story bizarrely ties together the more well-known tales of Sam Houston, Andrew Jackson, Chuck Norris, Clint Eastwood, Zachary Taylor, Wyatt Earp, and the dude with the shotgun who smokes all those fucking buffalo when you go hunting in The Oregon…
Bad-Ass Files: Virathus, One Of The First Guerilla Fighters
So I was watching this series on the History Channel the other night called Barbarians Rising and the first episode was about Hannibal and Virathus. The Hannibal story was good, but I knew about most of it already, Having read more than a few books on Hannibal, including The Ghost of Cannae, which I highly recommend…..
Bad-Ass Files: Alvin C. York, All-American Bad-Ass
This guy holds a special place in my heart. When I was a kid,growing up in the eighties, I watched the 1941 black-and-white epic, “Sgt. York” with Gary Cooper with my Dad. I always remember the part where York uses a turkey mouth call to get as a group of German soldiers hiding in a fox…
The Bad-Ass Files: Simo Hayha
In the winter of 1939, the Soviet Union was dicks. Russian Premier Josef Stalin thought it would be really fucking hilarious if he all of a sudden sent like two million of his dudes over to nearby Finland to start kicking everyone’s asses and seizing whatever land he could get his borsch-covered hands on, while…
The Bad-Ass Files: The Jew Who Refused to Die
This is the kind of attitude you are going to have to have folks if you want to survive in this crazy, upside down world we are living in…some POS Terrorist stabs you in the neck…you pull the knife out and kill him with it!! My Hats off to you Sir! I Hope you recover…