02 Aug Michael H. Ollis
When he enlisted in the U.S. Army at the age of 17, he didn’t know he’d one day make the ultimate sacrifice in the name...
02 Aug Who Built Fort West Point?
To be a hero is an art. To be a hero for two nations, doubly so. In this regard, Tadeusz Kościuszko was the master of...
02 Aug The Father of the U.S. Cavalry
Poles are never ones to lay down their arms, and the hotheaded hero of this story is no exception. Meet Kazimierz Pułaski, a.k.a. Casimir Pulaski:...
02 Aug From Zero to Hero and Back
Rumor has it that this Pole was responsible for America’s acquisition of Alaska and later became the territory’s first American administrator. That may not be...
02 Aug American Flyboy, Filmmaker, Polish Hero
Remember the classic, 1930s black-and-white version of King Kong? Did you know that, before he became a famous filmmaker, one of its directors was an...
02 Aug Antoni Chrościelewski
fot: Chrościelewski's family archive A life story that spans half the world, from Siberia to America, but a journey made against his will. Antoni Chrościelewski introduced...
02 Aug Rudolf Modrzejewski
He fulfilled his dream of becoming a virtuoso, but in the end, his instrument of choice wasn’t the piano. His designs for roads and bridges...
02 Aug Kazimierz Funk
The life-giving substances we now refer to collectively as “vitamins” were very nearly given a completely different name. When Kazimierz Funk, a Polish biochemist born in...
07 Oct Dołęga-Mostowicz. An A-class writer of B-class novels.
In 1929 he was mobilized as a soldier of the Polish Army reserves. He served as a corporal and took an active part in battles...