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.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
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.
Very interesting Cyni. Thanks. ;)
I worked with a Sudeten German guy on the State Highways. When Germany annexed the Sudetenland he volunteered for the Waffen SS. His father protested to his commanding officer that he was being treated too harshly in boot camp. They arrested him as a dissenter and sent him to the camps in Germany. The last I heard he still had not found a trace of him.
He was captured by the Russians and riding on a prison wagon with a female guard. She fell asleep and dropped her rifle. He jumped off the wagon and retrieved the rifle and woke her up. She gave him a big kiss and told him if she had lost her rifle they would have killed her. He was one of the few to be repatriated. Most died in the gulag as late as 1952. ;)
One time a snow squall blew in off the lake. So I called for back up. He lived in Skokie. This is where the Jews lived before they moved up and out. He came on the air and asked, "Where is the snow?" I said, "It's up north. Come on up here." ;)
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
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.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.