RANDOM INTERESTING FACTS #1 - The only soldier ever to fight on three sides of a war!

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Yang Kyoungjong (March 3, 1920 – April 7, 1992) who was a Korean soldier who fought in both the Imperial Japanese Army, the Soviet Red Army, and also later the German Wehrmacht during World War II. He is to date the only soldier to fight on three sides of a war.

In 1938, at the age of 18, Yang was in Manchuria he was drafted in to the Kwantung Army of the Imperial Japanese Army to fight against the Soviet Union. During the Battles of "Khalkhin Gol" Yang was captured by soviet forces (soviet red army) and sent to a labour camp. Due to a shortage of men in the soviet union while fighting Nazi Germany, in 1942 he was made to fight in the war against the Red Army along with thousands of other prisoners. He was sent to the European eastern front.

In 1943, he was captured by Wehrmacht soldiers in eastern Ukraine during the Third Battle of Kharkov, and was then forced into fighting for Germany. Yang was sent to Occupied France to serve in a battalion of Soviet prisoners of war known as "Eastern Battalion"

After the D-Day landings in northern France by the Allied forces, Yang was captured by paratroopers of the United States Army in June 1944. The Americans initially believed him to be a Japanese in German uniform; at the time, Lieutenant Robert Brewer. Yang was sent to a prison camp in Britain and later transferred to a camp in the United States.

After he was released at the end of the war, he settled in Illinois where he lived until his death in 1992.

gotta add this as i did find it,

In December 2005, SBS (Seoul Broadcasting System) aired a documentary on the existence of the Asian soldiers who served Nazi Germany and were captured by Allied forces. The documentary concluded that, despite the fact that there were indeed Asian Nazi soldiers captured during World War II, there was no clear evidence indicating the existence of an individual named Yang Kyoungjong.

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