George Albert Cairns

During WW2 Lieutenant George Albert Cairns, part of a British 'Special Force’ was tasked with constructing landing strips in a jungle in Burma. They came under heavy enemy fire when the construction began and were ordered to simply kill the enemy. Much of the fighting was hand-to-hand combat, British armed with bayonets and Japanese with katana. A Japanese soldier hacked off Cairns' left arm. In spite of this Cairns managed to kill that soldier, retrieved his katana with his right arm and stormed towards enemy swinging the katana. He killed and wounded several Japanese soldiers before collapsed and died of blood loss.