Yang Kyoungjong

Yang Kyoungjong
1944 image of a captured Nazi POW often claimed to be of Yang
Allegiance	Japan  Soviet Union  Germany
Service / branch	Imperial Japanese Army Red Army  German Army
Years of service	1938–1939 (IJA) 1942–1943 (Red Army) 1943–1944 (Wehrmacht Heer)
Battles / wars	Battles of Khalkhin Gol World War II Third Battle of Kharkov Operation Overlord
Korean name
Hangul	양경종
Revised Romanization	Yang Gyeongjong
McCune–Reischauer	Yang Kyŏngjong
Japanese name
Kana	ヤン・キョンジョン
Romanization	Yan Kyonjon
Russian name
Russian	Ян Кёнджон
Romanization	Yan Kyondzhon

Yang Kyoungjong (Korean: 양경종) is purported to have been a Korean man who, according to some historians, served in the Imperial Japanese Army, the Soviet Red Army, and finally the German Wehrmacht during World War II. While some men of apparent East Asian ethnicity served in the Wehrmacht and were captured by Allied forces, this individual's existence and supposed personal history are not substantiated by the historical record.