Thread by @AliceAvizandum

there was a paratrooper in the 101st airborne who got shot across the ass while lying on his stomach, such that he got four bullet wounds - entry into one cheek, exit, entry into the other, exit again

https://twitter.com/lordofthetvg/status/1382091207786962944

plus of course the fine tradition of British weirdos

I remember an interview with a German machine gunner on one of the British D-Day beaches, where he said ‘we saw a guy marching up and down playing the bagpipes, so none of us shot him because we assumed he had gone mad’

or the little biographical details, like the intelligence officer whose biography notes in a passing way that one of his hobbies was grouse hunting, with a revolver