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SAS~Bombsaway

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Here's a pic I didnt think I ever see.
« on: September 24, 2010, 04:06:18 PM »
I found this pic yesterday and it read. A Japanese soldier captured at D-Day

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Re: Here's a pic I didnt think I ever see.
« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2010, 04:18:09 PM »
Ummm... how is that possible? That is a crazy pic...
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Re: Here's a pic I didnt think I ever see.
« Reply #2 on: September 24, 2010, 04:22:51 PM »
Are you sure he was Japanese? The Germans sometimes captured Mongolian troops serving with the Russians, who they would then use on the Western front. There were also Asians living in Germany, France, and Poland who might have been pressed into service.
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Re: Here's a pic I didnt think I ever see.
« Reply #3 on: September 24, 2010, 04:24:28 PM »
Possibly Korean:
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The name of the soldier in this photo is Kyoungjong Yang who was born in Shin Euijoo, Northwestern Korea on March 3, 1920. He was conscripted to the Kwantung army in 1938 and captured by the Soviets in Nomonhan and captured again by Germans in Ukraine in the summer of 1943, maybe in the battle of Kharkov, and captured finally by Americans in Utah beach, Normandy on June 6, 1944.
http://www.ww2incolor.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-3303.html

I'd not take this as definitive though, without confirmation.
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Re: Here's a pic I didnt think I ever see.
« Reply #4 on: September 24, 2010, 05:30:59 PM »
So where is that sushi restaurant again ?
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Re: Here's a pic I didnt think I ever see.
« Reply #5 on: September 24, 2010, 07:51:55 PM »
Man did he ever get lost on the road to war.... The expression says it all.

Thinking to himself: "Ok. I should have turned left at the fork in the road, then some crazy guy puts me in this uniform, and now this".
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Re: Here's a pic I didnt think I ever see.
« Reply #6 on: September 24, 2010, 08:10:02 PM »
Probably the luckiest yet most unfortunate chap ever. He got captured 3 times, by 3 different armed forces, in (basically) 1 war, and lived to tell about it (I presume).

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Re: Here's a pic I didnt think I ever see.
« Reply #7 on: September 24, 2010, 08:13:16 PM »
Japan spy !
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Re: Here's a pic I didnt think I ever see.
« Reply #8 on: September 24, 2010, 09:21:41 PM »
He probably said "I dont know who thees other guys are, can I go now"
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Re: Here's a pic I didnt think I ever see.
« Reply #9 on: September 24, 2010, 09:34:29 PM »
Quote from: Friction on September 24, 2010, 08:10:02 PM
Probably the luckiest yet most unfortunate chap ever. He got captured 3 times, by 3 different armed forces, in (basically) 1 war, and lived to tell about it (I presume).
If it is Kyoungjong Yang, then from what I've been able to find from Google, he ended up living in Illinois, and died in 2002. Could have been worse...
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Re: Here's a pic I didnt think I ever see.
« Reply #10 on: September 27, 2010, 08:05:33 AM »
Quote from: SAS~Bombsaway on September 24, 2010, 04:06:18 PM
I found this pic yesterday and it read. A Japanese soldier captured at D-Day


gues he was sort of a reverse espace artist
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Re: Here's a pic I didnt think I ever see.
« Reply #11 on: September 28, 2010, 07:58:48 AM »
Wow... The Wehrmacht hat foreign Soldiers in their forces? Thats really interesting...
One thing interests me: Was the Luftwaffe entire german, or did they also had foreign Pilots?
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