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24-02-2005, 00:24
Am reading some history, ran into an interesting story I had not read before. Thought I would trouble all of you with it.
Utah beach June 6th, 1944: Lt. Robert Brewer of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment captured four Asians in Wehrmacht uniforms. No one could understand their language, no one could figure out what they were doing in France fighting for the Germans. Turns out they were Korean. They had been conscripted by the IJA (Korea was a Japanese colony) in 1938, they were captured by the Soviets during a border skirmish between the IJA and the Red Army. They were then forced into the Red Army and captured by the Wehrmacht outside of Moscow in 1941. Then forced into the Wehrmacht and sent to France where they fought on D-day and were captured by Lt. Brewer.
They were eventually sent back to Korea after the war where there is a good chance they got stuck fighting for either the DPRKA or the ROKs.
Either these guys are some of the luckiest or the unluckiest soldiers I have ever read of. Lucky for fighting in three armies and not being killed or wounded, unlucky for fighting in three armies, maybe four.
Utah beach June 6th, 1944: Lt. Robert Brewer of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment captured four Asians in Wehrmacht uniforms. No one could understand their language, no one could figure out what they were doing in France fighting for the Germans. Turns out they were Korean. They had been conscripted by the IJA (Korea was a Japanese colony) in 1938, they were captured by the Soviets during a border skirmish between the IJA and the Red Army. They were then forced into the Red Army and captured by the Wehrmacht outside of Moscow in 1941. Then forced into the Wehrmacht and sent to France where they fought on D-day and were captured by Lt. Brewer.
They were eventually sent back to Korea after the war where there is a good chance they got stuck fighting for either the DPRKA or the ROKs.
Either these guys are some of the luckiest or the unluckiest soldiers I have ever read of. Lucky for fighting in three armies and not being killed or wounded, unlucky for fighting in three armies, maybe four.