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The Korean Soldier Who Fought for 3 Armies During WWII · Ridiculous History

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, welcome to the show, Friends and neighbors. We are
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  Speaker 1: going to start today on a very down note, but
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  Speaker 1: the end of today's episode. Here's the downside. World War
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  Speaker 1: two was the most dangerous, deadliest military conflict in human
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  Speaker 1: history in absolute terms of people that died. Over sixty
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  Speaker 1: million people were killed and that was about three percent
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  Speaker 1: So good is it? Is it just the assonance or what?
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  Speaker 1: Oh I see, I see. Levels we're not entirely b
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  Speaker 1: sng here. The Nazis do come into play in today's story,
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  Speaker 1: but that's not where it begins. It begins in Manchuria.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, No, it begins in Manchuria in nineteen thirty eight. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: there's a young man whose name we were probably not
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  Speaker 1: going to pronounce correctly. Spoiler alert because we are not Korean.
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  Speaker 1: His name is Yang kyong jong, so solid man. We'll see,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see. Uh. He is eighteen years old in Manchuria. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And he was conscripted by the Imperial Japanese Army to
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  Speaker 1: fight against the Soviet Union. Yeah. In this little known
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  Speaker 1: at least to me, and I think you were maybe
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  Speaker 1: tangentially aware of it. But a conflict called a couple
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  Speaker 1: of different things. Um. The Russians referred to it as
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  Speaker 1: the Battle of culk and Gaul, and then the Japanese
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  Speaker 1: side referred to it as the Noman Hun incident. There
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  Speaker 1: you go, Yeah, what was the incident? What was the beef? Well, first,
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  Speaker 1: I want to point out that the Battle of Culkin
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  Speaker 1: Goal sounds like a spinoff of a Tolkien book, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean? Yeah, like something from Done. And
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  Speaker 1: that's why for the title alone, I'm going with the
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  Speaker 1: Russian side on this one. But it was a series
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  Speaker 1: of conflicts. As you said, they were undeclared between the
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  Speaker 1: Soviet and Japanese forces do entirely disagreements about borders, and
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  Speaker 1: they were fought along the Soviet Union among Gongolia, Japan
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  Speaker 1: and Manchuco from like across the year in nineteen thirty nine.
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  Speaker 1: And this this mainly happened because these two forces were
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  Speaker 1: attempting to expand their territory and their reach. The Japanese
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  Speaker 1: forces maintained that the border between Manchuco and Mongolia was
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  Speaker 1: this river, the Calcan Goal or in English the Calco River,
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  Speaker 1: which flows into Lake Ur. But the Mongolians, who are
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  Speaker 1: allied with the Soviet forces, said that the border was
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  Speaker 1: actually sixteen kilometers are almost ten miles east of the river,
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  Speaker 1: just east of the No mon Han village. And this
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  Speaker 1: wasn't just a little scraped, my friend, upwards of fifty
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  Speaker 1: thousand men, or as Cotton Flint would say, fifty thousand
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  Speaker 1: men were killed. Um, no small potatoes, man. But you
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  Speaker 1: know who wasn't killed is are the hero. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: call the hero because I think he's a total heroes protagonist.
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  Speaker 1: For sure, he was not killed, thankfully. Um. He was
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  Speaker 1: in fact captured by the Russians uh and sent to
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  Speaker 1: a labor camp. And then he was drafted into the
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  Speaker 1: Russian army. And there are two reasons for this. So
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  Speaker 1: when he was originally conscripted by the Imperial Japanese Army.
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  Speaker 1: He became part of a pretty hardcore fighting force called
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  Speaker 1: the Quantungu Army. This was the largest and most prestigious
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  Speaker 1: command in the Japanese Army. So he already had some
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  Speaker 1: experience right as an unwilling soldier. And the second factor
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  Speaker 1: that led to his conscription again, his second conscription, was
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  Speaker 1: that the Soviet Union had a terrible, terrible, terrible problem
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  Speaker 1: with manpower. They were short staffed. Yeah, that barely even
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  Speaker 1: begins to cover it. They were so desperate, in fact,
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  Speaker 1: that they were taking anyone, you know. So they so
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  Speaker 1: they can scripted this guy, do you want to stay
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  Speaker 1: in a gulag? Or do you want to fight for
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  Speaker 1: the glory of Mother Russia? Yeah? Sure, easy, easy, easy call.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever been in a gulag? Doesn't sound nice? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you get it. So they were forcing anyone they could
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  Speaker 1: find to join up with the Soviet military. And young
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  Speaker 1: does this for what about a year? No? Right? Because uh,
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  Speaker 1: you see, this was right on the cusp of a
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  Speaker 1: little little scrap we like to call World War Two.
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  Speaker 1: The previous episode we talked about um the Nazis use
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  Speaker 1: of soccer, American soccer football as a propaganda tool we
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  Speaker 1: talked about this idea of appeasement and how the Allies
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  Speaker 1: kind of kept letting Hitler do his thing, letting new
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  Speaker 1: is is he's gonna be fine, he's gonna chill out.
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  Speaker 1: Finally he invades Poland and that's just a bridge too far. Um.
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  Speaker 1: And then here we are right, because you're in the
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  Speaker 1: Pacific and Eurasian theater. Even before the war is breaking out,
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  Speaker 1: we see these tensions, these undeclared conflicts ratcheting up, and
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  Speaker 1: young is caught in the middle of it. So, just
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  Speaker 1: to keep track, he was not Japanese, but he got
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  Speaker 1: drafted to the Japanese Army, he got captured, and then
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  Speaker 1: he got drafted to the Russian Army and he in
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  Speaker 1: the nineteen forty two he was fighting in what they
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  Speaker 1: called the Red Army. He was sent to the Eastern
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  Speaker 1: Front of Europe, was there for a year, but then
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen forty three, during the Third Battle of Kharkov,
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  Speaker 1: he gets captured by Vermont soldiers. By German soldiers. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's right. They were called the Ost Battalion, which means
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  Speaker 1: East Battalion. Um. Great article on not the most creative
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  Speaker 1: website name, but rare historical photos dot com has more
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  Speaker 1: than a photo. It's got a real nice photo of
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  Speaker 1: who we think this young man was. And it's very
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  Speaker 1: into hands because he just has a real, real hang
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  Speaker 1: dog look on his face, and he so young. And
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  Speaker 1: the kid, the kid next to him, it looks even younger.
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  Speaker 1: He looks like he's like fifteen. It's crazy so um.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, there there's some good information on this site.
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  Speaker 1: I recommend checking it out. It's just called Young Kong Jong,
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  Speaker 1: the only known soldier to a fought on three sides
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  Speaker 1: of a war in nineteen spoilers, right, what side was next?
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  Speaker 1: What side came next? Then? So after he is captured
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  Speaker 1: by the Germans side, uh, they first off, they apparently
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  Speaker 1: don't bother with asking him how he came to end
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  Speaker 1: up fighting in Ukraine for the Soviets. Right, It's very
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  Speaker 1: likely that had circumstances been different, he would have been executed, right,
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  Speaker 1: because the Nazis at this time, we're not in the
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  Speaker 1: habit of allowing prisoners to volunteer to serve in the
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  Speaker 1: arm didn't she weren't. Weren't they down with that whole
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  Speaker 1: white supremacist master race thing and they want to keep
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  Speaker 1: it pure. Well, in this at this point in the conflict,
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  Speaker 1: they were willing to take almost anyone who would throw
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  Speaker 1: in for the cause, just another body to put in
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  Speaker 1: front of the bullets, you know. But they weren't like
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  Speaker 1: lou They weren't getting their asses handed to them at
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  Speaker 1: this point. Yeah, this is just the beginning of the war.
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  Speaker 1: They were still quite strong, right, but an experienced soldier
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  Speaker 1: is still an asset. And so because they had fallen
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  Speaker 1: into the habit of allowing again air quotes, allowing people
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  Speaker 1: to air quotes volunteer for this, uh Yang was conscripted
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  Speaker 1: to fight in the East Battalion or how do you
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  Speaker 1: say it, Austin Battalium perfect, thank you, man, uh in
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  Speaker 1: the seven nine Infantry Division of the Vermont. And these
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  Speaker 1: battalions were small groups of men that were all volunteers,
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  Speaker 1: quote unquote, volunteers from the different regions of Europe that
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  Speaker 1: the Nazi regime controlled. They were folded into larger units
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  Speaker 1: of German soldiers to serve as shock troops and back
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  Speaker 1: up to more experienced battalions. You can find this right
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  Speaker 1: up to on today. I found out dot com by
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  Speaker 1: Carl Smallwood. Yeah, I've been digging it as well. Highly recommended. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: we we don't know who they are. We just we
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  Speaker 1: just think they do fun stuff. So there he is.
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  Speaker 1: Now he's in this other army. What happens next? So
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  Speaker 1: now um, he's he's going to fight for his Reich
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  Speaker 1: to party. Huh, I'll allow it, Thank you, Ben, You're
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  Speaker 1: very kind. In nineteen forty four, he gets sent to
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  Speaker 1: France Um where he's going to join the wire marks
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  Speaker 1: astpitalion Um. There are tons of Soviet prisoners, much the
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  Speaker 1: same way that he was conscripted by the Japanese. Very
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  Speaker 1: similar deal. Right, it becomes kind of like slave labor, right,
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  Speaker 1: are like slave soldiers. Yeah, they're not forcibly saying join
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  Speaker 1: or die, maybe as explicitly, but she's implied. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: to quote Dennis Reynolds from It's Always sunny in Philadelphia,
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  Speaker 1: there's the implication. So we have to admit. It's not
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  Speaker 1: as if this kid was just rare and to go
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  Speaker 1: for war. He was trying to stay alive and have
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  Speaker 1: done it successfully. So he goes to this coaton in
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  Speaker 1: Peninsula in France, shortly before the Allies attempt to storm
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  Speaker 1: the beaches in an historical event known today as today Today.
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  Speaker 1: That's right d day where the Allied troops are storm
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  Speaker 1: in the beaches at France. You've seen it depicted in
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  Speaker 1: so many war films here in the West. Well, it
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  Speaker 1: turns out this kid is on the other side, the
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  Speaker 1: axis side, and he's trying to prevent the Allies from
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  Speaker 1: storming the beaches. Yeah, he's defending it on behalf of
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  Speaker 1: the knack sees um and he gets captured again. He
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  Speaker 1: gets captured again. I can tell you quick aside. That's
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  Speaker 1: something I learned from today. I found out dot com
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  Speaker 1: was that the actor who played Scottie on Star Trek,
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  Speaker 1: his name is James Duhan. He was among the Canadian
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  Speaker 1: soldiers who stormed the beach at Normandy and he got
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  Speaker 1: shot six times um and believe he lost a finger,
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  Speaker 1: got shot through the hand, several shots in the leg
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  Speaker 1: and one in the chest. That would have ended his
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  Speaker 1: life if it hadn't a been for this age old
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  Speaker 1: movie trope. What do you think it was, ben age
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  Speaker 1: old movie trupe? What saved his life? Oh? Was it
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  Speaker 1: a was it a bible? Was a flask? Cigarette case?
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  Speaker 1: A cigarette cast? Okay, So I just I love that
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  Speaker 1: because it's such a trope and it's a trope because
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  Speaker 1: gosh darnan it that it happens. So the Germans eventually
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  Speaker 1: get over run. This is out all entirely US propaganda.
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  Speaker 1: It really does happen. The Germans are eventually getting overrun
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  Speaker 1: by the Allies, and this time Yang is captured again,
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  Speaker 1: but this time by the Americans. And he can't catch
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  Speaker 1: a break. His kid can catch a break, and maybe
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  Speaker 1: he's catching all the breaks. It's you know, it's an
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  Speaker 1: interesting questions kind of a half full, half empty glass thing, right,
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  Speaker 1: the very forest gump end kind of situation. He's still alive.
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  Speaker 1: He's alive at this point, so that's that is. I
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  Speaker 1: think the probably is number one priority at that point.
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  Speaker 1: But there's a wrinkle. There's a problem here. When he's captured,
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  Speaker 1: he can't speak German, he can't speak English. The officers
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  Speaker 1: who originally found him and captured him, among them, there
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  Speaker 1: was Lieutenant Robert Brewer of the five or six Parachute
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  Speaker 1: Infantry Regiment, First Airborne, and he thought that this guy
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  Speaker 1: was a Japanese soldier in a German uniform. And he
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  Speaker 1: reported somewhat puzzled that the regiment had captured for Asian
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  Speaker 1: people in German uniform and that no one could talk
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  Speaker 1: to them, and so they just sent him to a
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  Speaker 1: pow camp in England. Oh and I believe they were
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  Speaker 1: ethnic Georgians, isn't that right? Right? Yeah, that's that's the
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  Speaker 1: current that's the current debate, because you could see how
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  Speaker 1: someone from the West, without experience in this part of
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  Speaker 1: the world or these cultures, might just quickly categorize them,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And and it's like, there
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  Speaker 1: are there's only one type of person that I could
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  Speaker 1: think of who would be here and looks like this,
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  Speaker 1: they must be Japanese. Take him away, book him Dano.
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  Speaker 1: I actually have it here is that they were from Turkestan. Turkestan, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so still in Eurasia because I found I found that
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  Speaker 1: they were from Georgian descent. Interest. Yeah, there's there's not
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  Speaker 1: This is kind of a murky story. It's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of Yeah, it's a lot of a lot of hearsay,
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  Speaker 1: and not much as known about um, this this young
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  Speaker 1: man's life prior to to you know, being conscripted into
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  Speaker 1: the Japanese army. Um. But what is known is that
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  Speaker 1: he didn't stick around after the war ended. Um he
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  Speaker 1: or he didn't go back home either he went to America. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he was transferred to a prison camp in the US.
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  Speaker 1: And then he was released from captivity in nineteen forty
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  Speaker 1: seven and he said, you know what, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: stay here, Land of Opportunity and all that. He moved
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  Speaker 1: to Illinois, lived there. Yeah, and that that's we're in
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  Speaker 1: the county right, Yeah, which is is that Chicago area? Yeah? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Chicago area. And again I don't I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you found anything on this, but I found that his
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  Speaker 1: life gets murky again. He sort of falls from the
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  Speaker 1: historical record. Yeah, that's where the story ends, at least
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  Speaker 1: as far as rare historical photos is concerned. They they
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  Speaker 1: they say that they found that he quietly passed away
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  Speaker 1: in two but there's really not much information about what
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  Speaker 1: he did um with the rest of his life. But man,
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  Speaker 1: you look at the picture of what would supposedly this
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  Speaker 1: this young dude, he has seen some he's got that
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  Speaker 1: thousand leagues stare so common with people who have experienced
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  Speaker 1: PTSD or traumatic events. But there's a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a fictional side to this that he would have enjoyed
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  Speaker 1: had he gotten the chance to experience it. There was
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  Speaker 1: a film made about his journey called My Way in
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  Speaker 1: two thousand eleven, and it's entirely based on Yang Kiong
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  Speaker 1: Jong's I don't want to say adventures. No, his experience
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  Speaker 1: is hopping from one army to another all the way
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  Speaker 1: to Illinois. Can you imagine the stories this guy must have? Nope?
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  Speaker 1: Can you also? Also? Additionally, could you imagine going to
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  Speaker 1: see a movie that was inspired by true events in
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  Speaker 1: your life? Would you do it? Or would you want
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  Speaker 1: to skip it? Go see my movie? Yeah, I think
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  Speaker 1: it'd be cool. I think it depends on who plays
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  Speaker 1: like I would want to know who played me, well,
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  Speaker 1: I would. I would obviously have final say on that.
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  Speaker 1: I think we have to. This came up on movie Crush,
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  Speaker 1: from Stuff You Should Know Um. A listener asked who
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  Speaker 1: we would get to play ourselves in our movie. Chuck
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  Speaker 1: said he would get Jack Black to play him. Cool,
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  Speaker 1: I said, I want Bradley Cooper to play me, and
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  Speaker 1: put on some pounds, you know, do the work, put
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• 18:45
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  Speaker 1: want to play you in a film adaptation of your
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  Speaker 1: life or a really interesting story in your life. I
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  Speaker 1: always think that's an interesting question. I've never I've never
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  Speaker 1: saw a new why I would just play myself. There's
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  Speaker 1: the technology now where I could play the young You
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  Speaker 1: don't have the time, man, You've got too much going on.
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  Speaker 1: We'll make the time. We'll make the time. I'll do
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  Speaker 1: I'll do it animated. We'll speaking of making time, why
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  Speaker 1: listen to mail. I'm not going to do that voice
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  Speaker 1: the whole time, but we do want to say thank
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  Speaker 1: for sure Napoleon getting attacked by rabbits love all of
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  Speaker 1: the fact that we misspronounced a word that particularly triggered
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  Speaker 1: him and sent him into a blind rage um, but
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  Speaker 1: thankfully he seems to have chilled out. Portmanteau pronounced correctly,
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