ONE BADASS BRIT

MEET THE MAN WHO WAS SHOT SEVEN TIMES, CRASHED TWO PLANES AND SURVIVED BEING A POW

T. Logan Metesh

IF A SOLDIER was shot in the face, head, stomach, groin, ankle, leg, hip or ear; was blinded in one eye; had been in two plane crashes; tunneled out of a POW camp; fought in three wars; or tore off his own fingers when a doctor declined to amputate them, you’d no doubt call any soldier who lived through one of those events lucky to be alive. But what do you call someone who survived each and every one of those situations? Aside from calling him lucky to be alive, I’d suggest using his name—specifically, Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart. Yep. Believe it or not, Lt-Gen Carton de Wiart went through all of that and lived to tell the tales. TASTE FOR WAR Born in Brussels, Belgium,…

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