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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: oakranger on July 09, 2012, 01:18:45 AM
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Anybody saw it yet. I read about two Koreans that fought and capture and caught again four times until Normandy invasion where their journey ended.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o24bCC8ySDA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o24bCC8ySDA)
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Haven't seen it, waiting for it to come out on DVD so I can get it.
As for Koreans being captured at Normandy, it's true and probably would make a good movie in its own right.
The story of the Korean that was captured is a sad one I think. Yang Kyoungjong was forcibably conscripted into the Japanese army in 1938 and sent to Manchuria and fought in the Battle of Khalkhin-Gol in which he was captured by the Soviets and sent to a POW gulag to work hard labor. In 1942 when the Germans were at the gates of Moscow, the Soviets forcibably conscripted POWs to fight for them, Yang being one of them. Yang was capture by the Germans during the Battle of Kharkov and briefly sent to a German POW camp for Soviet soldiers. Yang was chosen out of the Soviet POWs to join a battalion of ex-Soviet POWs to fight for Germany and was sent to Normandy to defend the beaches and was captured by US paratroopers. After the war, Yang settled in the US and died in 1992.
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pmjR42oTN7A/T9AR0wlEfUI/AAAAAAAAlF4/LWVsFLL0j_Y/s1600/photo%2B3.jpg)
This picture is supposed to be a group of Japanese Army engineers sent to Germany to study the coastal defenses along the French coast and got caught at Normandy during the D-Day landings. They look more from the Soviet Far East to me and most likely were captured on the Eastern Front by the Germans and sent to serve in Ost battalions like Yang Kyoungjong.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v243/airsoftshooter35/airsoft%20stuff/p012606.jpg)
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Looks good, never heard of this story.
Is it just me though, or did the narrator sound rather dry?
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First I've heard of it. Looks good.
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Haven't seen it, waiting for it to come out on DVD so I can get it.
As for Koreans being captured at Normandy, it's true and probably would make a good movie in its own right.
The story of the Korean that was captured is a sad one I think. Yang Kyoungjong was forcibably conscripted into the Japanese army in 1938 and sent to Manchuria and fought in the Battle of Khalkhin-Gol in which he was captured by the Soviets and sent to a POW gulag to work hard labor. In 1942 when the Germans were at the gates of Moscow, the Soviets forcibably conscripted POWs to fight for them, Yang being one of them. Yang was capture by the Germans during the Battle of Kharkov and briefly sent to a German POW camp for Soviet soldiers. Yang was chosen out of the Soviet POWs to join a battalion of ex-Soviet POWs to fight for Germany and was sent to Normandy to defend the beaches and was captured by US paratroopers. After the war, Yang settled in the US and died in 1992.
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pmjR42oTN7A/T9AR0wlEfUI/AAAAAAAAlF4/LWVsFLL0j_Y/s1600/photo%2B3.jpg)
This picture is supposed to be a group of Japanese Army engineers sent to Germany to study the coastal defenses along the French coast and got caught at Normandy during the D-Day landings. They look more from the Soviet Far East to me and most likely were captured on the Eastern Front by the Germans and sent to serve in Ost battalions like Yang Kyoungjong.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v243/airsoftshooter35/airsoft%20stuff/p012606.jpg)
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What a journey for them.
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I've never heard the story either. Very interesting.
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I've never heard the story either. Very interesting.
The first and only time i heard of the story was in Stephen E. Ambrose book: D Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II.
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The first and only time i heard of the story was in Stephen E. Ambrose book: D Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II.
One of the most ironic parts of the war is that the SS and German army was one of the more racially diverse fighting forces during the war.
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One of the most ironic parts of the war is that the SS and German army was one of the more racially diverse fighting forces during the war.
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Yes they where.