The Polish soldiers, his new family, improvised techniques to face the challenge of feeding him. The small, malnourished cub needed food and care. They chose to take the little orphan bear in. But when the little bear became too much to handle alone, Inka befriended the Polish soldiers. Near Hamadan, Iran, Irena Bokiewicz had purchased the male cub from a young Iranian shepherd boy. His mother was killed at the hands of hunters. The cub or little bear, that the Polish soldiers found, was orphaned. Later the Polish Second Corps joined the British Eighth Army and assisted in the invasion of then Nazi-occupied Italy. Their mission was to form up in Palestine. This group became the Polish Second Corps. On their way to the Palestinian organization area, a large group of Polish soldiers came across a little bear in the mountainous Persian regions. Under the command of the British, a new Polish Army was being formed. The main route out of the Soviet Union was across the Caspian Sea to Iran. In the spring of 1942, Polish prisoner deportees were released from the Siberian labor camps. There are so many stories about Wojtek, said filmmaker Brendan Foley, who is making a movie about the infamous bear. He was one of the troops, just another guy on the battlefield. Have you heard about the 510-pound (210 kilogram), six-foot (1.8 meter) bear that served in the Polish Army during World War II? This is one of the warm and fuzzy, somewhat unusual, but true war stories.
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