'Private Wojtek', seen here with a fellow soldier, was said to have carried ammunition as the Polish II Corps took Monte Cassino from the Germans (Imperial War Museum ) "It's fantastic to have a piece ...

WHEN British soldiers looked along the Italian battlefield at the height of World War Two, they were met with a surreal sight: a fully-grown bear lumbering with an armful of artillery shells. The ...

It’s Spring 1942 and Polish Armed Forces are on the move to Iran with thousands of Polish civilian refugees. It’s a long trip and en-route to Tehran they took a stop outside the city of Hamadan. While ...

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 ...

Young soldiers, far away from home and missing their families, discover a bear cub. That’s how the story of Wojtek begins, back in 1942. He was alone in the mountains of Iran; nobody knows how he got ...

A big, brutal, blundering and untrustworthy bear – its accurate and enduring emblem. Some of its oblasts (administrative regions) still boast them on their coats of arms. Bears are best avoided, and ...

Archibald Brown had already seen a lot during the war -- but nothing like this. It was mid-February 1944, and the courier for British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery was in the port of Naples to help ...