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What young looking German soldiers. Probably confused as to why their Japanese allies are fighting them.
They were fighting while their family's were interned?
U.S. Mainland Nisei were but most of those of Hawaiian origins were not.
Can just here the German prisoners now, "Hey, sind Sie nicht auf unserer Seite" ("hey, aren't you on our side") :madsmile::rofl:
Koreans working for the Germans captured at D Day by US Troops
I have read of a Korean man drafted into the Japanese army fought against the Russians in Manchuria, taken prisoner conscripted into the Russian army, taken prisoner by the Germans and THEN was taken prisoner in Normandy by US forces.
World traveler!
His name is Yang Kyoungjong. He is the only known man to have fought in the Imperial Japanese Army, Soviet Army and then the German Wehrmacht. He was captured by the Americans on Utah Beach in June 1944.
Wonder if he ever went back to Russia I am sure they would have bestowed on him "Hero of The Motherland" award then tied him to a post and shot him or sent to a Gulag in Siberia even if he was a POW of the Germans he defected from his army to fight for them 2 losing sides out of three not a good lottery that one.
The article states he remained in a POW camp as a German POW until war's end then was released and settled in Illinois until his death in 1992.
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Originally Posted by ed skeels