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Campaigners want tribute for WWII 'soldier bear'
Anonymous
Scottish campaigners are calling for a memorial to a bear which joined Polish troops on the front line during World War II and later died in Edinburgh, media reported.
Voytek, a 113-kilogram, 1.8-metre brown bear, was adopted by the Poles after they found it in Iran in 1943.
They gave the animal beer and cigarettes, trained it to carry mortar shells and even enlisted it as a soldier so that it could keep travelling with them.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/27/2147412.htm
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