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    1) Wojtek was a brown bear who joined the Polish II Corps in 1941 after being rescued as a cub in Iran. 2) He served alongside Polish soldiers during World War 2, participating in important battles like Monte Cassino in Italy. Wojtek was officially inducted into the military with his own rank and serial number. 3) Wojtek helped carry ammunition boxes and was a beloved mascot who boosted troop morale. He retired to Edinburgh Zoo after the war and died in 1963 at age 22, leaving a lasting legacy as a soldier in the Polish Army.

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    1) Wojtek was a brown bear who joined the Polish II Corps in 1941 after being rescued as a cub in Iran. 2) He served alongside Polish soldiers during World War 2, participating in important battles like Monte Cassino in Italy. Wojtek was officially inducted into the military with his own rank and serial number. 3) Wojtek helped carry ammunition boxes and was a beloved mascot who boosted troop morale. He retired to Edinburgh Zoo after the war and died in 1963 at age 22, leaving a lasting legacy as a soldier in the Polish Army.

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    1) Wojtek was a brown bear who joined the Polish II Corps in 1941 after being rescued as a cub in Iran. 2) He served alongside Polish soldiers during World War 2, participating in important battles like Monte Cassino in Italy. Wojtek was officially inducted into the military with his own rank and serial number. 3) Wojtek helped carry ammunition boxes and was a beloved mascot who boosted troop morale. He retired to Edinburgh Zoo after the war and died in 1963 at age 22, leaving a lasting legacy as a soldier in the Polish Army.

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    WOJTEK

    The unbearable soldier

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    CONTEXT:
    WW2
    1st September 1939: Germany invaded Poland
    17th Semtember 1939: The Soviet Union
    invaded Poland
    1941: Germnay invaded the Soviet Union
    CONTEXT
    WW2
    30th July 1941: The Soviets granted
    « amnesty » to many Polis citizens
    imprisoned
    1941: A HAPPY
    WARRIOR
    His mother have been shot by hunters,
    so the cub was left alone in a desert

    Polish soldier passing through IRAN


    picked up a new member to their
    group.

    He eventually joined what would


    become the 22nd Artillery Supply
    Company.

    4
    INTERESTING
    HABITS
    He loved smoking(or eating)
    cigarettes, drinking coffee in the
    morning.

    Wojtek was subsequently given


    fruit, marmalade, honey and syrup,
    and was often rewarded with beer,
    which became his favorite drink

    5
    LEARNING TO PLAY
    FAIR
    .
    He also learned wrestling and could
    be seen wrestling skillfully with the
    soldiers. He would pretend to bite
    them and roll the soldiers on the floor
    for fun.

    He got a kick out of wrestling with the


    other soldiers.

    6
    NO ANIMALS
    ALLOWED
    LARGE IMAGE SLIDE
    In 1942, the Corps linked up with the
    British 8th Army. The British High
    Command did not allow any animals
    in the camp.

    7
    THROUGH THE
    WARZONE
    LARGE IMAGE SLIDE
    The Polish Army formally enlisted
    Wojtek the Bear into their ranks. He
    was given the rank of Private. From
    that point on, he was included in all
    official unit rosters.

    Wojtek get onto a British transport


    ship when the unit sailed with the rest
    of the Polish II Corps from Egypt to
    fight alongside the British 8th Army in
    the Italian campaign (December 1943),

    8
    CORPORAL
    WOJTEK
    As an enlisted solder of the
    company, with his own paybook,
    rank and serial number
    EVENING
    CAMPFIRE
    Wojtek spent evenings sitting around the
    campfire with the men and sleeping in
    tents with the rest of the soldiers.

    10
    A BOOST OF
    MORALE
    SUBTITLE GOES HERE

    11
    ON THE
    MARCH
    When the unit marched out on a
    mission, Wojtek would march along
    side them

    12
    A HELPING
    PAW
    He hand-carried boxes of ammunition
    from supply trucks to artillery positions.
    Some weighted over 100 pounds.
    18 MAY 1944
    TH

    MONTE CASSINO
    The ultimate objective was to break
    through the Winter Line and
    facilitate an advance towards Rome.

    14
    CHILLING BY
    THE BEACH
    After the battle of Monte Cassino
    Wojtek played in the sea. Wojtek
    loved water
    THE OFFICIAL BADGE OF THE 22ND
    TRANSPORT COMPANY BECAME A
    LIKENESS OF WOJTEK HOLDING A
    SHELL.
    The badge of the 22nd Artillery Support Company
    of the 2nd Polish Corps. The unit made a design
    of Wojtek the bear after his work in such a role in
    the campaigns in the Middle East and Italy

    16
    DEEP
    APPRECIATION
    Once his unit was demobilized in Scotland,
    the bear was resettled at the Edinburgh Zoo.
    He was frequently visited by his old friends
    from the Polish Army.
    PASSING
    AWAY
    The hero bear passed away in 1963 at
    the age of 22. Edinburg still has a
    memorial to the brave brown bear.

    18
    A FELLOW
    SOLDIER
    “It was very pleasant for me to think about
    him. I felt like he was my older brother”
    Wojciech Narebski, a Polish soldier
    WOJTEK JOURNEY MAP BY AILEEN ORR, 2012

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