The Soldier Forced To Fight For Three Sides In WW2

Global conflict: Korean Yang Kyoungjong, who survived being conscripted into the Japanese army, the Red Army and the Wehrmacht

The Soldier Forced To Fight For Three Sides In WW2... The Ultimate Tale Of A Man Who Became A Reluctant Veteran Of The Japanese, German And Soviet Armies -- Daily Mail

American paratroopers in Normandy in June 1944 thought they had captured a Japanese soldier in German uniform, but he turned out to be Korean. His name was Yang Kyoungjong.

In 1938, at the age of 18, Yang had been forcibly conscripted by the Japanese into their army in Manchuria. A year later, he was captured by the Red Army after the Battle of Khalkhin-Gol and sent to a labour camp. The Soviet military authorities, at a moment of crisis in 1942, drafted him, along with thousands of other prisoners, into their forces.

Then, early in 1943 he was taken prisoner at the Battle of Kharkov in Ukraine by the German army.

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