Wojtek the bear was adopted by Polish soldiers and fought alongside them in World War Two A bear, famed for his love of beer, cigarettes and boxing and who was by the side of Allied troops in ...

In 1942, a band of Polish soldiers freshly released from prisons and work camps stumbled upon an unlikely mascot when they ...

Her father joined the Polish Free Army, as he called it, and met Wojtek while in the Middle East. Wojtek was famed as a bear ...

a 440 pound Syrian bear named Wojtek. Wojtek first came to the company as a cub, but over the course of the war he matured and was given the rank as a corporal in the Polish army. Here's ...