the youngest Legionnaires, and now, when it is necessary, I am sacrificing my life", Ilustrowany Kurier Codzienny May 27, 1939: "A retired man from Lwow. I am free now, I can do whatever I want with myself. I am 60, I am not able to march with a carbine for a long time, but I am feeling good enough to learn how to operate a torpedo and thus saving at least one young life", Ilustrowany Kurier Codzienny May 27, 1939: "40-year old lady named Z.B. from Brzesko. I want to emphasize that I already have a volunteer son in the Navy, second son is also going to the army. I am requesting immediate addition of my name to the list of volunteers", Ilustrowany Kurier Codzienny May 27, 1939: "Maksymilian K. from Lwow. I am Jewish, I love my fatherland, so I am volunteering to the death battalion", Kurier Poranny June 20, 1939: "Among huge number of volunteers for the living torpedoes, there is a German man, named Karol Lange, who is a farmer living in the Bydgoszcz county. He had been a member of a German organization, but withdrew from it, because, as he says, it is impossible for him to be a loyal citizen of Poland and a member of such organization at the same time". See also Błotniak Kamikaze Kaiten References Komenda Marynarki Wojennej — "ŻYWE TORPEDY" Tomasz Zając, Polskie żywe torpedy, Portal o2.pl, 007-03-23 Narcyz Klatka, "Polskie żywe torpedy w 1939 r.", GDW — Gdański Dom Wydawniczy Sp. z o.o. Andrzej Sowa, "Kronika 1939 roku", Dom Wydawniczy Bellona, Warszawa 2000. 1939 in Poland Suicide weapons