Posted: 12/30/2004 7:17:19 PM EDT
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When was the last US serviceman that was separated from his unit, through no fault of his own, repatriated back to US custody. Probably some shipwrecked sailor or shot down aviator, whatever. Just some poor dumb bastard that got lost in the chaos. when was he repatriated? I don't have a clue, anyone got anything? |
| Slightly off-topic, but my great uncle was an infantry division commander on the Russian front. When the 6th Army surrendered, he was interrogated for four days by the NKVD (Soviet Secret Police) and signed a confession. He spent the next 14 years in Siberia, and was then repatriated to West Germany. |
I take it there is Bavarian Irish blood in your background.......... An interesting answer. Thank you! |
He was one of the lucky ones too. |
| Again slightly off-topic, but when I was on Guam I read Japanese straggler Sgt. Yokoi's book "24 Years in the Jungles of Guam", and even went looking for his cave. (Didn't find it.) The part I remember most vividly was his description of watching B-52's taking off for Viet Nam, and thinking WWII was still going on. |
Didn't someone finally find him and capture him in the late 70s-early 80s, and at that point he was repatriated to Japan? That guy has to hold the record. |
Google 'Japanese Holdouts" I'm feeling lucky. Interesting website. What i'm wondering is US servicemen that wound up lost. |
HHAHAHAAHAHAAHH LMFAO pen and paper on the way to the room lol Saw something last week on a us airmen that got shot down. then got away from the germans, then finished the war fight with the russians, in a tank unit .It took him some time to convince the US ARMY that he was a yank |