There was a grisly righteousness served when the Polish submarine Orzl, under British command, torpedoed and sank the German troop ship Rio de Janeiro off the Norwegian coast on April 8, 1940, at the dawn of Germany’s invasion of Norway. When I first heard this story I thought to myself, “Come on,” Poland didn’t have a Navy in World War II. But I was wrong. The story of the Orzl, and a few other Polish naval vessels that escaped when Germany invaded Poland in 1939, is remarka