Semi OT : Allied corridors of advance - real life

[BBfanboy]

Oz should have hired the Korean Labourers liberated when the Japanese units they were attached to were destroyed. They couldn't be returned home yet and sitting in a camp is a waste of manpower. I am sure these men would have been happy to earn some money to take with them when they returned home.
Of course there was the problem of Westerners assuming all oriental peoples could be Japanese ...

[Lovejoy]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Oz should have hired the Korean Labourers liberated when the Japanese units they were attached to were destroyed. They couldn't be returned home yet and sitting in a camp is a waste of manpower. I am sure these men would have been happy to earn some money to take with them when they returned home.
Of course there was the problem of Westerners assuming all oriental peoples could be Japanese ...

After the Normandy landings, some American soldiers captured a Korean in German uniform. He'd been drafted by the Japanese, captured by the Soviets during the border fighting and drafted into the Red Army after Barbarossa, and was then captured by the Germans and forced into the Wehrmacht, and sent to France, before finally ending up in an American PoW camp.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Lovejoy

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Oz should have hired the Korean Labourers liberated when the Japanese units they were attached to were destroyed. They couldn't be returned home yet and sitting in a camp is a waste of manpower. I am sure these men would have been happy to earn some money to take with them when they returned home.
Of course there was the problem of Westerners assuming all oriental peoples could be Japanese ...

After the Normandy landings, some American soldiers captured a Korean in German uniform. He'd been drafted by the Japanese, captured by the Soviets during the border fighting and drafted into the Red Army after Barbarossa, and was then captured by the Germans and forced into the Wehrmacht, and sent to France, before finally ending up in an American PoW camp.

Talk about an identity crisis! I presume he was not an effective soldier for anyone. Cook, maybe?

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: Lovejoy

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Oz should have hired the Korean Labourers liberated when the Japanese units they were attached to were destroyed. They couldn't be returned home yet and sitting in a camp is a waste of manpower. I am sure these men would have been happy to earn some money to take with them when they returned home.
Of course there was the problem of Westerners assuming all oriental peoples could be Japanese ...

After the Normandy landings, some American soldiers captured a Korean in German uniform. He'd been drafted by the Japanese, captured by the Soviets during the border fighting and drafted into the Red Army after Barbarossa, and was then captured by the Germans and forced into the Wehrmacht, and sent to France, before finally ending up in an American PoW camp.

Talk about an identity crisis! I presume he was not an effective soldier for anyone. Cook, maybe?

He could have had a great career as a chef in a French restaurant.

[rustysi]

ORIGINAL: Zorch

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: Lovejoy




After the Normandy landings, some American soldiers captured a Korean in German uniform. He'd been drafted by the Japanese, captured by the Soviets during the border fighting and drafted into the Red Army after Barbarossa, and was then captured by the Germans and forced into the Wehrmacht, and sent to France, before finally ending up in an American PoW camp.

Talk about an identity crisis! I presume he was not an effective soldier for anyone. Cook, maybe?

He could have had a great career as a chef in a French restaurant.

After the war he stayed in the U.S., and became a citizen.