Remarkable stories during World War 2
“In June 1944, a young soldier surrendered to American paratroopers in the Allied invasion of Normandy. At first his captors thought that he was Japanese, but he was in fact Korean. His name was Yang Kyoungjong. In 1938, at the age of eighteen, Yang had been forcibly conscripted by the Japanese into their Kwantung Army in Manchuria. A year later, he was captured by the Red Army after the Battle of Khalkhin Gol and sent to a labour camp. The Soviet military authorities, at a moment of crisis in 1942, drafted him along with thousands of other prisoners into their forces. Then, early in 1943 he was taken prisoner by the German army at the Battle of Kharkov in Ukraine. In 1944, now in German uniform, he was sent to France to serve with an Ostbataillon supposedly boosting the strength of the Atlantic Wall at the base of the Cotentin Peninsular inland from Utah Beach. After time in a prison camp in Britain, he went to the United States where he said nothing of his past. He settled there and finally died in Illinois in 1982" Antony Beevor.
>>973959
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1606384/?ref_=nv_sr_1
What about the Finnish green beret who died in 'Nam and served in the waffen SS? I forgot his name
>>974019
Larry Thorne
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauri_T%C3%B6rni
>>973959
This would be sheer pottery if he was eventually put into American service and captured by the Norks five years later.
Love the story of the German pilot who guided a damaged US bomber to safety
>>975053
That would probably be the best story ever.
>>975192
>pilot gets finished destroying cities and killing civilians
>"lol, ill just guide him to safety"
Would've shot him down, as he deserved.
>>974035
>you'll never hate communists this much
This dude is notable because he's the only person to fight for the Americans and the Soviets in WW2.
>Is a paratrooper
>separated from his unit he goes all Solid Snake and blows up some shit solo for several days
>gets captured by Krauts
>goes on a grand tour of POW camps because he keeps escaping and getting capture again
>escapes the last POW camp and comes across a Soviet tank unit
>"Are yall going to kill some Germans?"
>"Da"
>The Soviet tank officer in charge is a female
>uses his pussy slaying powers to convince her to let him fight alongside them
>Chills with the Russians for a while before getting injured by German Stukas attacking his shit
>Survives and ends up getting back home eventually
The Battle for Castle Itter in the Austrian North Tyrol village of Itter was fought on 5 May 1945, in the last days of the European Theater of World War II.
Troops of the 23rd Tank Battalion of the 12th Armored Division of the US XXI Corps led by Captain John C. "Jack" Lee, Jr., a number of Wehrmacht soldiers, and recently freed French VIPs defended Castle Itter against an attacking force from the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division until relief from the American 142nd Infantry Regiment of the 36th Division of XXI Corps arrived.
The French prisoners included former prime ministers, generals and a tennis star. It may have been the only battle in the war in which Americans and Germans fought side-by-side.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_Castle_Itter
>>977073
This guy's life story reads like a Call of Duty campaign.
>>973959
Man
I've got a pretty good life.
>>974035
What a badass
>>977077
Can someone explain the context? Why did the heer fight alongside the americans? Why did the Americans fight alongside the heer? Why did the SS fight the heer? So many weird and unusual aspects to this!
>>975192
>german honor repaid by dresden and anglo treachery
>>977169
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_Castle_Itter
The war is pretty much over at this point and the german heer, as you know, is a seperate entity to the SS.
SS are pretty much Nazi extremists and were fighting to the death, the regular troops of the heer wanted to stop fighting, if cought by the SS, would have been killed by the for Desertion.
>>973959
>forcibly conscripted
Really? It was tough competition for Koreans to join IJA.
>>977302
Whoops, I mean:
>Killed by the SS for desertion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stanford_Tuck
>Tuck had an extraordinary piece of ill-fortune when he intercepted a German bomber heading towards Cardiff. He fired at extreme range in poor light, causing it to jettison its bombs in open countryside instead of on the city. The last of its stick of bombs caught one corner of an army training camp and killed one soldier. The soldier was the husband of Tuck's sister.
>>977302
Thanks for the reply, also why was there one single SS soldier who fought on the side of the heer/americans? Wouldn't the fact that he is SS alarm the americans/heer?
>>977310
>(citation needed)
>>977337
The Waffen-SS were not one collective political consciousness. A lot of Waffen-SS men were co-opted into the unit from the Heer to shore up their officer ranks. Some were just as tired of the war as rest of the Germans. Some felt their loyalty to Hitler ended the moment he shot himself. It was a confusing time to be a German.
Adrian von Folkersam and the Maikop Raid
>In early August 1942, a Brandenburger unit of 62 Baltic and Sudeten Germans led by von Fölkersam penetrated farther into enemy territory than any other German unit. They had been ordered to seize and secure the vital Maikop oilfields. Disguised as men of the dreaded Soviet security police, the NKVD, and driving Soviet trucks, Fölkersam's unit passed through the Soviet front lines and moved deep into hostile territory. The Brandenburgers ran into a large group of Red Army deserters fleeing from the front. Fölkersam saw an opportunity to use them to the unit's advantage. By persuading them to return to the Soviet cause, he was able to join with them and move almost at will through the Russian lines.
>Operating under the false identity of NKVD Major Truchin, based in Stalingrad, Fölkersam explained his role in recovering the deserters to the Soviet commander in charge of Maikop's defences. The commander not only believed Fölkersam, but the next day gave him a personal tour of the city's defenses. By August 8, the German spearheads were only 12 miles away and the Brandenburgers made their move. Using grenades to simulate an artillery attack, they knocked out the military communications centre for the city. Fölkersam then went to the Russian defenders and told them that a withdrawal was taking place. Having seen Fölkersam with their commander and lacking any communications to rebut or confirm his statement, the Soviets began to evacuate Maikop. The German spearhead entered the city without a fight on August 9, 1942.
Picture related: Otto Skorzeny (big guy center left) and Adrian von Folkersam (small guy center left) following their successful pacification of Budapest.
>>977367
That's fucking cool, thanks for posting anon
>>975053
>I have come full circle
>>977073
He could have been played by Michael Rooker in a biopic
>>977695
Jack O'COnnell
