Title: The Soldier who fought in 3 Armies Source:
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Interesting personal history of a man who fought in the Finnish Army against the Soviet invasion, with the Waffen SS against the Soviets and with the Green Berets. He joined the US Army after jumping ship in Alabama. They recognized him to be an exceptional soldier and a good leader.
Prior to and during WWII, there was a Korean youth that was impressed into the Japanese army, during combat with Russia, he was captured by Russians and taken into their army. Russians sent him to fight Germans, captured by the Germans he was taken into German army and stationed in France. Captured by Americans, he was liberated and fighting days were over.
Prior to and during WWII, there was a Korean youth that was impressed into the Japanese army, during combat with Russia, he was captured by Russians and taken into their army. Russians sent him to fight Germans, captured by the Germans he was taken into German army and stationed in France. Captured by Americans, he was liberated and fighting days were over.
I never met him,but there was a Finnish man named Larry Alan Thorne (Lauri Allan Törni) who first fought the Russians as a Captain in charge of commando unit where he earned and was awarded the Finnish Equivalent of our Medal of Honor
After Finland lost the war,he fled to Germany,joined the German Army as a Private,was accepted into the SS,and went to Russia to fight them some more. Before WW-2 ended,he was a Captain in the Waffen SS and once again fighting Russian soldiers. This time in Russia.
After WW-2 ended he emigrated to the US and enlisted as a private in the US Army in the hope he could kill more Russians. This was a man they knew how to hold a grudge!
In 1965,as a US Special Forces Captain (the 3rd army he held that rank in!),he was once again working behind enemy lines to fight the Russians. This time by proxy as he was fighting Vietnamese.
He was a Captain with the C&C Detachment of MACV-SOG,and was went MIA in Laos when the helicopter he was in was crashed in a storm while trying to rescue a recon team in trouble,and went missing in action.
He is the only German Army SS veteran buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
He is considered to be such a hero in Finland that there is at least one statue of him in a public square.
There has been talk for years about making a movie about him,but AFAIK,it has never happened.