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Pet therapy, comic relief, military asset: Wojtek the bear was the Polish Army's secret weapon in Italy - Part 3
``The further backward you can look, the further forward you can see,'' Winston Churchill on the need to know history.
By Joe Kirwin
When you learn the story of some Polish soldiers and civilians' WWII saga including being imprisoned in the Soviet Union at the start of WWII, then escaping down through what is today central Russia, Iran, Syria, Palestine and Libya before arriving in Italy in 1943 to help Allied Forces end Nazi and Italian Fascist tyranny, it is easy to wonder how they survived such trauma. Surely, human perseverance played the biggest role. But they had a little help from a…
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