During World War II
the Polish Resistance army, the AK, faced with the brutal horrors of Germany on one side and the crushing might of Russia on the other, defended themselves with anything that came to hand.

Being an agricultural country, this was very much ploughshares-to-swords time, but year on year their losses mounted up until it was decided to push forward into Germany in one last-ditch attempt for freedom.

By 1944, knowing the Allied forces were amassing on Norman beaches, the AK trained a special group of dairy farmers into a fearless tactical force, whose sole remaining asset, their livestock, would prove to be Poland's deadliest weapon.

In order to penetrate the German lines, the cows underwent a vigorous regime of squad-formation drills, involving an encrypted method of bell-ringing to form them into a special attack division to drive en masse through the front line. Taking the strongest heifer as a point, she would be flanked by the next two sturdiest cattle, whose left and right hind quarters would then have another cow protecting them. This 10-tonne meat arrow could protect two or three Polish soldiers on the move, allowing them to overrun Nazi outposts and make daring raids for equipment and sabotage. History now records that the Polish-led Bovine Tactical Wedge Formation operation was one of the greatest moo-vees ever.
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Sun 20 Jul 2008, 14:33, 1 reply)

finally!
punnage!

knew it was coming but had to read to the end...

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( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sun 20 Jul 2008, 19:17, closed)