Soldier of 3 armies -WW2 amazing story

It wasnt unusual in WW2 to recruit soldiers from captures forces, this was especially done by the Japanese, the Russians and to some degree Germany. Usually these were used behind the front, or given poor equipment and used as cannonfodder. They were often send to other fronts to avoid them fighting their own. And this is was happened to Yang Kyoungjong - twice after he was first conscripted! Yang was born in 1920 in Korea and was conscripted by the japanese army to fight against the Soviet Union in 1938 when he was 18 years old.  In 1939, during the Battles of Khalkhin Gol he was captured by the red army and send to a labour camp.  As the war on the European Eastern front was weighing heavy on the Soviet forces, thousans of prisoners was send west and forced to fight the germans- and Yang was one of them.

Photo: Yang  in German uniform after being captured by the Americans.

We dont know anything about Yangs skills as a soldier, but we do know he was good at being captured and not killed. In the Battle of Kharkov in Ucraine in 1943 he was caught by the Wehrmacht. He was then send to France as part of a the "Eastern Battalion" - a battalion of Soviet POW`s.

Not surprisingly- Yang was captured again, this time by American paratroppers in June 1944. he was then send to Britain, belived to be a japanese in German uniform. He ended up in a camp in the USA and was released after the war ended.

He settled in Illinois and lived there until his death in 1992. He fought in 3 armies in WW2, on 3 different battlefields and was captured 3 times. He survived.