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Jan Łożański, operating under the pseudonyms "Orzeł" and "Jan Madejski" (4 February 1912 – 21 June 1990 in Sanok) was a Second Lieutenant (podporucznik) and a military courier in the Polish Home Army and ZWZ during World War II.
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Jan Łożański, operating under the pseudonyms "Orzeł" and "Jan Madejski" (4 February 1912 – 21 June 1990 in Sanok) was a Second Lieutenant (podporucznik) and a military courier in the Polish Home Army and ZWZ during World War II.
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Life During the Second Polish Republic Jan Łożański was a sportsman (he played football, boxed and trained in athletics ) and a professional soldier. When the Second World War began, he was a corporal (kapral podchorąży) in the 6th Podhale Rifles Regiment and was stationed in Sambor. After the Invasion of Poland he was taken prisoner by the German forces but managed to escape. He returned to his hometown of Zarszyn in October and in December 1939 fled to Hungary with the intention of joining the Polish troops in France. Upon reaching Budapest he was sent to a civilian refugee camp in Eger. There he accepted a proposition to become a military courier on the Warsaw-Budapest trail and to deliver messages from Hungary to Poland, though at first he intended this service to be temporary as he had not yet abandoned his plans of joining the regular Polish army forming in France. He was sworn in and received his training in Budapest and delivered his first messages in the winter of 1940. At first his trail lead through the Tatra mountains, then 45 times he traveled through the Low Beskid on the Jaga trail. He carried documents, weapons, money and…
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Honours and awards Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari Gazeta Sanocka – Autosan. Vol. 26, no. 497. Sanocka Fabryka Autobusów. September 20–30, 1989. {{cite magazine}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
