I love a good story but there is some misinformation here. Obviously he does and the picture hangs in a museum in Normandy, France and the original kept at NARA. I'm not trying to say this soldier doesn't exist. I really want to work with someone to verify this story and watch the documentary (it is in Korean) because it makes some serious arguments to the legitimacy of this person's identity. I seriously need to know this because these continuous popups of his existence in the United States, let alone his name, is all brought into serious questioning. There is a findagrave memorial listing that was created in 2013.
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huffpost and other online media outlets). These references to Illinois and his death have become a merry-go-round of misinformation based on non-primary sources (i.e. This can also be seen and understood by any English speaker at exactly 30:55 of the documentary (episode 2).
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Needless to say it is easily understandable why an Asian soldier in a Nazi uniform could be described as being Japanese. The records following this picture is an Official US Coast Guard Public Relations Department with the description: "Jap in Nazi Uniform Captured". In the second episode of the documentary they discover the original photo at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) building at College Park, MD. 6:06 of the of the Korean SBS documentary. The exact moment when this is revealed and the curator's response is in English. LT Brewer's cassette tape is conspicuously missing. The SBS Documentary goes to New Orleans where his recordings of the 101ABN/506PIR soldiers are kept. LT Robert Brewer captured them and assumed they were sent back to Korea where they would end up "fighting against the US Army, or with it" (p. The only passage where Stephen Ambrose mentions the Korean soldiers (there were 4 Koreans apparently) is on page 34. QUESTION: Where is there proof in Stephen Ambrose's book that he died in Illinois in 1992? I literally read his book because of this. Although it is in Korean, vital timestamps (listed below) are in English and crucial to the overall article. Click the blue box to play the documentary. This issue relates to this article and cited information from this "SBS Korean Documentary". Not a Hoax but there are serious problems: Where did his name come from? 10 German Ossuary at Huisnes-sur-Mer in Normandy.5 Although cremated, He has an entry at find a grave.
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1 Not a Hoax but there are serious problems: Where did his name come from?.The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Yang Kyoungjong. that Yang Kyoungjong was a Korean soldier who was drafted into the Japanese, Soviet and German armies, and captured by US soldiers in Normandy on D-Day?Ī record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2012/November. This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.Ī fact from Yang Kyoungjong appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 1 November 2012 ( check views). This article has been rated as Start-Class on the project's quality scale. Korea Wikipedia:WikiProject Korea Template:WikiProject Korea Korea-related articles For instructions on how use this banner, please refer to the documentation. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. This article is within the scope of WikiProject Korea, a collaborative effort to build and improve articles related to Korea.