Tuhia he tomokanga mō tēnei wāhanga - I te wā o te whakaekenga o Poland, i herea a Szczepanik ki Lithuania, ā, i muri mai, i hopukina e ngā ope Soviet. Mai i te 1940 tae noa ki te 1942, i mauheretia ia ki nga puni Gulag Soviet i Kozielsk me te Kola Peninsula. Whai muri i te pakarutanga o te Pakanga a Ruhia-Tiamana me te hainatanga o te Whakaaetanga Sikorski-Mayski, i tukuna ia ka uru atu ki te II Corps Polish i raro i te rangatira Władysław Anders. I te mea he Kaitohutohu (a ka mutu ko te Matua) i roto i te ope taua o Polani, i mahi ia me te rereketanga i roto i te Fifth Polish Artillery Regiment <unk> i roto i nga pakanga o Monte Cassino, Ancona, me Bologna
He aha? Ko ia tetahi o nga mema tuatahi o nga hoia Allied ki te uru ki Bologna. I te 1945 i whakawhiwhia ia ki te Cross of the Valorous, a i te tau e whai ake nei ka whakawhiwhia ki te Cross Silver o Merit me Swords. Hei taapiri, i whakawhiwhia a Szczepanik ki te Tohu Itari o te Tohu Toa a te Kingi o Itari me etahi atu tohu pakanga Polani me Ingarangi. I mahi hoki ia hei rangatira hononga me te Royal Artillery Training Team, i whakahaua e Colonel R.R. Hoare.