talk about rough life...

[superpeltor]

http://www.dkbnews.com/bbs/data/headlinenews/1075101894/normandykorean.jpg

Caption explains all, very sad...

[DE_Six]

Wow...
He sure came a long way...

[NcDeuce]

Damn, he did come a longass way. I've never heard about this...good find.

My mom said that the Japanese troops would just take teenage girls from Korea and deploy them with the troops to be used. Many died from torture/rape/etc.

[DE_Six]

Damn, he did come a longass way. I've never heard about this...good find.

My mom said that the Japanese troops would just take teenage girls from Korea and deploy them with the troops to be used. Many died from torture/rape/etc.

The so-called "comfort women." Estimated 200,000 women and girls. Shame is, the Japanese government still refuse to admit its existence to this day.

[anonymous individual]

LOL I feel sorry for that person.

[elguapo]

and the americans? also impressed him into service? ;)

[Vance]

and the americans? also impressed him into service? ;)
No we were to good for him. ;)

[Fox2]

He then was sent back homeland of Korea. A decade later he was pressed into service YET ONCE MORE by the Koreans. He was captured by the Americans yet again and impressed into service in Vietnam. He was captured by the North Vietnamese and YET AGAIN impressed into service...

:lol:

[elguapo]

sure..... :)



*subtitles* wow that's an amazing story dude, now I'm just gonna need your signature right over heeeeeeeeeeere.....


http://www.dkbnews.com/bbs/data/headlinenews/1075101894/normandykorean.jpg

[Kenshin]

This jap soldier wasnt that lucky..


http://www.rastko.org.yu/kosovo/istorija/ccsavich-propaganda/009.jpg

[Vance]

I'd say.

[Fox2]

Jesuchristo.

Thanks for posting that while I'm eating a sandwich, bud. :|

[Haiw]

It's one way to get to France without money for a plane ticket...

[Marxist203]

I think its amazing that he survived...those were some rough theatres.

[FallenAngel]

Wasn't just one guy though, it was a few dozen.

[Salty Dog]

this is amazing, and sad. think of all the unit citations and medals he could have. ;) but on a serious note, this is really amazing.

[kinghk]

Try a google search for Lauri Törni or Larry Thorne which is his english name. Finnish guy who fought for the finns during the winterwar against the russian commies, for Germany against the ruskies, and at last for USA against the commies from Vietnam, where he died in a helicopteraccident.

[Fox2]

Try a google search for Lauri Törni or Larry Thorne which is his english name. Finnish guy who fought for the finns during the winterwar against the russian commies, for Germany against the ruskies, and at last for USA against the commies from Vietnam, where he died in a helicopteraccident.

I thought to join the US Armed Forces, you could never have worked for an enemy in the past. :|

[digrar]

I've been reading some of Stephen Ambrose's books on D Day lately, where he mentions some of these press ganged soldiers. He said allied soldiers would be assulting a defensive position when all of a sudden there would be a lot of firing but no incoming. Then these smiling non German soldiers would come out to surrender, leaving behind a very dead German NCO or officer.

[FallenAngel]

Try a google search for Lauri Törni or Larry Thorne which is his english name. Finnish guy who fought for the finns during the winterwar against the russian commies, for Germany against the ruskies, and at last for USA against the commies from Vietnam, where he died in a helicopteraccident.

I thought to join the US Armed Forces, you could never have worked for an enemy in the past. :|

Alot of people who fought for the "wrong side" suddenly turned best friend when the Cold War started heating up. Take for instance the Japanese scientists who tortured and killed hundreds of thousands- if not millions- of Chinese in WWII conducting "mdeical experiments". Were they put on trial like the Germans at Nuremburg? F*ck no- the US government quickly brought them to the US and granted them amnesty in return for their research conclusions. ;)

[Marmot1]

yep and i.e. at the end of world war 2 most of the reinforcements to polish army in france and italy were ex wermacht soldiers(poles) who were by force impresed to german army.... ie my grandgrand father was impresed to wermacht in WW1 and was at Verdun then he was moved to western front and he escaped wermacht and joined tsarist russia army and then revolution begun so he deseted russian army returned to poland when we regained independence and he joined polish army....

[soldierandy]

wow! your grandad had been about. Imagine the stories he could tell. Amazing things some people go through in wartime.

One friend of mine when I asked him about his german surname had this explanation:

His dad was a actually a Yugoslavian from an area near Hungary where they are ethnic germans. When the Germans invaded Yugoslavia he fought against them and then pressed into service with the hungarian army which was on germany's side. He was sent to the eastern front where he escaped the hungarian army because of bullying and persecution and pressed into the SS, where he got his serial number tattooed on his forearm - they did that not only to Jews. He fought the russians all the way into russia and then retreated back all the way to berlin. He carried a wounded soldier into hospital during the street fighting but had to leave his rifle outside as no weapons were allowed in the hospital. When he came out of course his rifle had gone and he went and hid in the hospital as the russians were coming and the germans were shooting any soldiers without a rifle as deserters. he witnessed the russians killing all the doctors and nurses and wounded soldiers in the hospital but was later captured. Eventhough he ripped his skin to destroy the tattoo they identified him as SS and was sent to a gulag in siberia till 1956 when he was repatriated to Yugoslavia. He was reunited with his older brother who had also been pressed into service with the german ski troops and spent the entire war skiing on the alpine border with Switzerland and never fired a shot.

Talking about a major gripe!