Hero

A True Hero and Adventurer Has Died

Charles Fawcett a true hero and adventurer has died. To give you an idea of his life, despite recurring bouts with TB, he did the following:

  • Worked tranp steamers in the 1930s travelling to the far east through the Panama Canal.
  • Learned jazz trumpet from Louis Armstrong
  • In 1939 joined the Polish army to fight the Nazis
  • Worked in the French Ambulance Corps
  • Rescued allied prisoners from the Nazis in Paris
  • In 1944 was part of the US Ambulance Corps in Italy
  • In 1945 joined the French Foreign Legion in fighting to liberate France
  • Married six Jewish women in three months to get them into the USA
  • 1948, fought the communists in Greece
  • 1956, he helped rescue refugees from Hungary
  • 1959 he helped rescue people trapped by fighting in the Belgian Congo
  • Acted in 25 films
  • In 1979 he joined Afghan rebels in fighting the Soviets