With the approval of Polish high command, the 22nd Artillery Supply Company’s badge was changed to one showing a bear carrying an artillery shell. The veterans who served alongside Wojtek had ...

Wojtek used to entertain Allied troops by smoking cigarettes, drinking beer and wrestling with them, but the 30-stone bear was also a handy soldier who carried artillery shells and terrorised ...

Thus began a near three-year friendship between Wojtek the bear and the then 17-year-old Polish soldier. The bond between the two was strengthened by the fact that they shared the same first name ...

As unbelievable as it sounds, Wojtek the bear was an official member of the 22nd Artillery Supply Company of the Polish II Corps — a soldier-bear who not only raised morale, but who actually ...

But ask some Polish military veterans and they’d probably cite another creature: Wojtek the bear, a 500-to-600-pound brown bear that was essentially adopted by the 22nd Transport Company’s ...

Private Wojtek' was a 6ft-tall 35 stone Syrian brown bear which was adopted by a Polish regiment stationed in the Middle East . When Allied commanders issued an order that troops advancing on Rome ...

The story of Wojtek the Bear; a magnificent 500lb bear who fought in World War II alongside a band of Polish soldiers, shared their beer and cigarettes, and eventually their fate. Show more This ...

Faithful 'Private Wojtek' , a 6ft tall, 500lb brown bear who served alongside Polish soldiers '“ and lived out his years after the war in Edinburgh Zoo '“will now be honoured with his own ...

It relates the experience of the Polish people during the Second World War through the true story of Wojtek and his friend Piotr Prendys, a member of the 22nd Artillery Corps of the 2nd Polish Army.

The creators behind The Snowman are working on a new film about Wojtek, a brown bear recruited into the Polish army during World War II. Purchased as a young cub from a railway station in Iran by ...

Tom and Dominic discuss Wojtek, one of history’s most extraordinary animals, and his life in the army - an emblem of hope amidst the horrors of the Second World War. Show more The story of ...

Thus began a near three-year friendship between Wojtek the bear and the then 17-year-old Polish soldier. The bond between the two was strengthened by the fact that they shared the same first name ...