Yang Kyoungjong

Korean man Yang Kyoungjong had an interesting story. In 1938, Yang was press-ganged into the occupying Japanese army. During the Japanese-Soviet border clashes in the Battles of Khalkhin Gol, Yang was captured by the Soviets. Yang was then sent to the labor camps. The Soviet Red Army had serious manpower issues (the famines within the Holodomor and the fighting the Nazis tends to waste a bunch of manpower), so the Soviet government pressed several of the inmates in the labor camps (which happened to include Mr. Yang) for military use. German troops captured Yang in the 3rd Battle of Kharkov. Nazi Germany was also facing serious manpower issues, so Yang was pressed into military service by his captors AGAIN. Yang was captured by the Americans during D-Day. Yang apparently liked the United States, because he spent the rest of his life in the US. He died in 1996 at age 72.