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The Unwilling Soldier of Three Armies

→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" cam“” Doohan from Star Trek fame was shot six times by his fellow countrymen; and Mad Jack Churchill stormed the beach with a sword and a bow. Another unusual thing that occurred was the capture of what initially was assumed to be a Japanese soldier in a German uniform by American paratroopers. As it turns out, this soldier was neither Japanese nor German and was in fact a young Korean man who, through a bizarre series of incidents, had been conscripted to fight for the Soviets, the Japanese and the Germans during WW2. This is the story of Yang Kyoungjong Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/10/soldier-three-armies/ Sources: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gb00AQAAQBAJ&pg=PT10&dq=Yang+Kyoungjong&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CFEQ6AEwB2oVChMIiurmqIbRyAIVx10UCh0_xwva#v=onepage&q=Yang%20Kyoungjong&f=false https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/korean-soldier-fights-multiple-armies-wwii.html https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KeiEAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA60&dq=Yang+Kyoungjong&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAWoVChMIiurmqIbRyAIVx10UCh0_xwva#v=onepage&q=Yang%20Kyoungjong&f=false https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=u0wgBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA135&dq=Yang+Kyoungjong&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDUQ6AEwA2oVChMIiurmqIbRyAIVx10UCh0_xwva#v=onepage&q=Yang%20Kyoungjong&f=false https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MBQoBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT109&dq=Battle+of+Kharkov+Yang+Kyoungjong&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAmoVChMIgZvXi6XRyAIVCzsUCh19sQpc#v=onepage&q=Battle%20of%20Kharkov%20Yang%20Kyoungjong&f=false http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=104354380 Image Credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Overlord#/media/File:NormandySupply_edit.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jack_Churchill_leading_training_charge_with_sword.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yang_Kyoungjong.jpg https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilt:Khalkhin_Gol_Soviet_off

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  • Originally Aired May 5, 2017
  • Runtime 4 minutes
  • Production Code zhl-nIK1kV4
  • Created September 18, 2020 by
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  • Modified September 18, 2020 by
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