12. He Insisted On Having A Lifeboat Mounted With A Machine Gun On All Ships He Travelled On During World War II So He Could "Resist Capture At All Costs"
While on naval trips during the Second World War, not only did Churchill travel with the pseudonym "Colonel Warden", he also insisted on having a lifeboat mounted with a machine gun on it. Churchill wanted the machine-gun-armed lifeboat on the Queen Mary vessel for his frequent trips across the Atlantic so that he would be able to "resist capture at all costs" - even if the ship itself had been sunk.
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