Wojtek, the war bear, started life as an orphaned Syrian bear cub found by an Iranian shepherd. The shepherd sold the bear cub to the Polish Army as the soldiers made their way towards Tehran to ...
Wojtek, the war bear, started life as an orphaned Syrian bear cub found by an Iranian shepherd. The shepherd sold the bear cub to the Polish Army as the soldiers made their way towards Tehran to ...
As a fan of history, I listened to a January podcast “The Rest Is History” by Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook. Few stories in military history are as extraordinary as that of Wojtek, the Syrian ...
The minimalism of this war story is touching, and the principals’ performances varied and powerful. Wojtek, as Poles (apparently) will well know, is the soldier-bear who joined the Polish fighters, ...
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The Soldier Bear – WWII’s Strangest Hero
A bear in the army?! Meet Wojtek, the soldier bear who fought alongside Polish troops in WWII. His story will amaze you! Moment beach walkers run for their lives as cliff collapses Zhang Yiyang: The ...
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The Soldier Bear (Strange Stories of World War II)
A brown Syrian bear was given to a new Polish Army, setting up in the Middle east in 1942. The 22nd Artillery Supply Company of the Polish II Corps would name him ‘Wojtek’ by the soldiers and soon he ...
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