It was Churchill’s own arrow that skewered the luckless German, while his men’s rifles accounted for the rest. While he may have known that his enemy was soldiers of the Manchester Regiment, the German leader could not have known that they were led by the formidable Captain “Mad” Jack Churchill. From a small farm building on their flank, rifle-fire tore into the others. Without warning, one German crumpled, the feathered tip of an arrow sticking out of his chest. Five of his soldiers took cover behind a farmyard wall, sheltered from the fire of British rearguards covering the retreat of the British Expeditionary Force to the English Channel. It was May 1940, and the German officer’s unit was attacking toward a village called l’Epinette, near Bethune, France.
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