Yang Kyoungjong (March 3, 1920 – April 7, 1992) was a Korean who fought in the Imperial Japanese Army, the Soviet Red Army, and later the German Wehrmacht during World War II.

In 1938, at the age of 18, Yang was in Manchuria when he was conscripted into the Kwantung Army of the Imperial Japanese Army to fight against the Soviet Union. At the time Korea was ruled by Japan. During the Battles of Khalkhin Gol, he was captured by the Soviet Red Army and sent to a labor camp because of the manpower shortages faced by the Soviets in its fight against Nazi Germany, in 1942. In 1943, he was captured by Wehrmacht soldiers in Ukraine during the Third Battle of Kharkov, and was then pressed into fighting for Germany. Yang was sent to Occupied France to serve in a battalion of Soviet prisoners of war known as an "Eastern Battalion". Yang was captured by paratroopers of the United States Army in June 1944 after the D-Day landings in northern France by the Allied forces.

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