The outbreak of World War II (September 1, 1939) caught Pawłowicz on the maiden voyage of the MS Chrobry.
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As a young scout, he joined Pilsudksi's Polish Legions during World War I and later, as an officer in the Polish Military Organisation (Polska Organizacja Wojskowa), he took part in the Polish-Soviet War, during which he was wounded and moved to the reserve.
Bohdan Khmelnytsky | Bohdan Stupka | Bohdan Pomahač | Bohdan Wodiczko | Bohdan Pawłowicz | Bohdan Lepky | Bohdan Khmelnytsky (''left'') with Tugay Bey | Bohdan Bondarenko |
Since its creation, the Institute has included some 1,500 scholars and artists, including Zbigniew Brzeziński, Jan Henryk De Rosen, Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Aleksander Wolszczan, Hilary Koprowski, Waclaw Szybalski, Michael Novak, Bohdan Pawłowicz and Nobel Prize winners Roald Hoffmann, Czesław Miłosz and Frank Wilczek.