During World War II, Yang Kyoungjong found himself fighting for Japan, the Soviets, and Germany.
Wikimedia CommonsThe third Battle of Khalkhin Gol . Offensive of Soviet BT-7 tank in 1939 .
World War IIis a fascinating period of history , and it has an innumerable amount of unbelievable tale . One of these unlikely tales involves a soldier of Korean descent who fought and shed blood for three dissimilar countries : Japan , the USSR , and Nazi Germany . Even upon his final seizure , it was initially believed that he was a Nipponese soldier in a German uniform .
Yang Kyoungjong ’s story begins in 1938 . He was 18 years old and live on in Manchuria , which was been busy by Japan from 1931 until the end of the war . With the origination of World War II , he was immediately conscript by the Imperial Japanese Army into the Kwantung division to fight against the USSR to the north of Manchuria . At the time , the Kwantung division was the largest and most honored of all of Japan ’s military force .
Wikimedia CommonsThe third Battle of Khalkhin Gol. Offensive of Soviet BT-7 tanks in 1939.
Kyoungjong remain to process for the Imperial Japanese army for another year until he was consume as a prisoner of war by the Red Army during the Battle of Khalkhin Gol . The Battle of Khalkhin Gol was an influential struggle between Japan and the Soviet Union that determined the fierce perimeter conflict between the Manchuria and Mongolia .
This intense battle between the two mogul ultimately raged from May until September 1939 , take over 100,000 troops and 1,000 tank and aircraft . A stupefying public figure of 30,000 to 50,000 men were wounded or killed . And in the final climactic battle on August 31 , 1939 , the Japanese were crushed .
Wikimedia CommonsYang Kyoungjong bear a Nazi uniform in a troll - up of German soldiers . He states his name to an American Army captain .
Wikimedia CommonsYang Kyoungjong wearing a Nazi uniform in a round-up of German soldiers. He states his name to an American Army captain.
Yang Kyoungjong ’s fate thus fall into Soviet hands , as he was then shipped off to a labor summer camp . However , due to a shortage of manpower , the USSR pressure whoever they could into military Robert William Service , which signify Kyoungjong recruit the fray as a Red Army soldier . After a year , Kyoungjong was once again taken as a captive of war by the Germans at the Third Battle of Kharkov .
TheThird Battle of Kharkovwas a major battle that go on between the Soviets and the Germans . Arguably in this unmarried battle , the Germans were able-bodied to prevent large swaths of the Ukraine from being lost to the Soviets , and it was a major victory for the Germans on the Eastern front .
However , the Germans were not immune to military personnel casualty , and they struggled with a shortage of manpower . Kyoungjong again found himself as a provisional soldier as he began fighting alongside German military force . Fatefully , he would defend against the allied forces in Normandy , France on June 6 , 1944 .
When the Germans were being overrun , Yang Kyoungjong was captured for the final time by Americans .
Due to his inability to speak English or German , Kyoungjong was sent to Britain ’s prisoner of war bivouac until the war number to an destruction . After he was released at the end of the warfare , Kyoungjong settled in Illinois where he lived until his death in 1992 .
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