The toughest individual WW2

[kurtbrian]

http://www.geocities.com/armdury/anderslassen.htm
Anders Lassen

he died to ensure the misson success and the retreat of his comrades.

He took out 3 german Pill-boxes.


That guy had guts

 

[Halibutt]

Originally posted by Suvorov
Close enough...

singular: shtrafrot
plural: shtrafroty

Or shtrafbatalion(y). My friends´ grandpa served in one of those. He was even sent to a minefield, managed to cross it and escape into some forest. Later he joined the Home Army, took part in the Wilno Uprising only to be disarmed and sent to Siberia for 13 years. He was a lucky bastard as the soviets did not find out his real name and thus didn´t know he was a deserter...
Cheers

 

[Halibutt]

My own grandpa would fit too. He was the weakest of his seven brothers and was constantly ill before the war. In October 1939 he was sent to Concentration camp (he was 17 or so at the time) as a chief of boy scout team in his town. He was relieved of the concentration camp on May the 6th 1945...
Cheers

 

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I'd say Miklos Horthy, i mean, he was tough enough to be an admiral in a landlocked country!!

 

[Arkestra]

I'd go for Stanley Hollis, of The Green Howards. Single-handedly took out two pill-boxes on D-Day, and many other actions throughout the day. Only person awarded a VC for D-Day, and he survived the war to make it home to his family.

 

[Halibutt]

Originally posted by Panzeh
I'd say Miklos Horthy, i mean, he was tough enough to be an admiral in a landlocked country!!

Well, Trieste is a rather big port. One of the biggest in the Mediterranean, AAMoF...
Cheers

 

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hungary didn't have trieste in ww2

 

[Halibutt]

Originally posted by Panzeh
hungary didn't have trieste in ww2

Horthy became an admiral before WWI.
Cheers

 

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i know, i just thought it was peculiar

 

[Halibutt]

Originally posted by Panzeh
i know, i just thought it was peculiar

Geee... peculiar that he started his service before WWII? AAMoF most of the generals in Central Europe started their service even before WWI...
Cheers

 

[Vulture]

Originally posted by Halibutt
Geee... peculiar that he started his service before WWII? AAMoF most of the generals in Central Europe started their service even before WWI...
Cheers

No peculiar that he was an admiral

 

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Audie Murphey.

 

[L G]

Many of the lost German and Russian soldiers that fought and gave thier lives for their friends and not for themselves during the many battles on the Eastern Front.

 

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He could lead a canoe in Lake Balaton!!

 

[Halibutt]

Originally posted by Panzeh
He could lead a canoe in Lake Balaton!!

Or a flotilla of monitors on Danube river.

Or a Austro-Hungarian fleet on Adriatic.
Cheers

 

[The Larch]

A really tough guy was a friend of mine's grandfather.
He was a spanish civil war veteran, having fought several of the main battles.
After the spanish civil war, he joined the Blue Division (A division of spanish volunteers for the eastern front), and took part on the Stalingrad battle, until he was badly wounded in early '43 IIRC, and sent back to Berlin to a military hospital.
He was at that hospital until the fall of Berlin by the commies, spent some time as a prisoner, and was later sent back to Spain.

So, the guy was a first line soldier for 8 years (36-43), and survived to tell the tale. And he was no coward, so he survived by toughness.

 

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People like Guy Sajer.

The fact that he survived the battles of the eastern front is a testiment to that.

In his book, how many times did he just leave his foxhole/emplacement seconds before SU artillery nailed it?

Anyone that can survive the winter, sickness, starvation, retreats, endless bombardments, and unthinkable hardships deserves praise for their spirit to live.

 

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Lewis (Chesty) Puller, USMC.

Served in Guadacanal, New Britan and Pelilu (sp). he was a crazy Col. that had his CP so close to the front lines, the enemy was about 150 yards away.

 

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Finnish corporal ROKKA! He destroyed whole company of Russian infantry with single M31 Suomi sub-machinegun. Well, I'm not sure is he a real person. Rokka was a character in Väinö Linna's Tuntematon Sotilas (a book and the movie). But he was a tough guy and it is possible that Väinö Linna was telling about real person (Linna was taking part in Finnish continous war).

 

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No one have mentioned any fighter aces yet, how any of the 100+ japanesse aces?