'KUBUŚ' (Warsaw’44 Uprising Armoured Car)
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"Kubus" was built by the Polish Home Army during the Warsaw uprising of 1944. Only one vehicle was built and it took only about 13 days to complete. It was designed as an armored personnel carrier to be used during assaults.
The original Kubuś survived the war, and in 1945 was towed to the Polish Army Museum as one of the first exhibits after the museum had been looted by the Germans, where it was restored and exhibited; it remains there to this day. A full-scale operational replica was created in 2004 by Juliusz Siudziński and is, as of 2009, on exhibition at the Warsaw Uprising Museum. One of the crewmembers of Kubuś during the uprising was Krzysztof Boruń, who would later become a prominent journalist and science fiction writer.
