little tigers

"I was amazed when some of our big, good-looking officers whom you would expect to be towers of strength turned out to be little pipsqueak people who needed bucking up all the time, and some other little nondescript 135-pounders turned out to be real tigers... It was the little people who really came through." - World War Two seaman Stephen Juricka, on his experience in combat and how sociological stereotypes were turned on their head. Quoted from Max Hastings' Inferno.