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* The French resistant Armand Bacquer was born in 1920, executed in 1944 [http://www.plaques-commemoratives.org/Members/FTanniou/BACQUER%20Armand and died in 2005]. Armand Bacquer was a French policeman in Paris, caught by germans the day Paris was liberated, he was promptly shot at nightfall, and survived all night, until a passer-by called the Red Cross. His most important wound was in the left lung which is usually very fatal. He limped for the rest of his life, having been also shot four times in the right leg. He recovered slowly, and lived until 2005. He was 24 at the time of his execution.

* All the tales of ''I Shouldn't Be Alive'', which was a show on the Discovery Channel.

* Anyone on [http://www.greenharbor.com/fffolder/ffallers.html this page], but Lt. Chisov in particular. He survived a fall of 22,000 ft without a parachute after bailing out of his crippled bomber.

* Similar to the Marine story mentioned above, a man was robbing a small town bank when, through pure coincidence, one of the tellers happened to be a former classmate who recognized him. Now needing to eliminate the witnesses, the crook took them to a back room and executed them each with a shot in the back of the head with a large-calibre handgun. Except, again coincidentally, for the woman who knew him: the bullet traveled around her skull and out the forehead, knocking her unconscious and (like all head wounds) causing so much blood that he assumed she was dead. She testified at his trial.<br /><br />Getting shot in the head and having the bullet not penetrate is surprisingly common, even with modern firearms. Given the strength and roundness of a skull, bullets can skip off or pull the "run under the scalp" thing described above. Of course more powerful rounds are less likely to fail to penetrate.