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The battleships Oklahoma (left) and Arizona in the gateway Pedro Miguel Panama canal, November 1921
 
They are southbound, heading for the Pacific. Pedro Miguel locks are a pair of flight locks coming off the Culebra Cut, a nine mile long stretch through the height of land. After Pedro Miguel is Miraflores, and the Pacific. About where the warship above the locks is, there is now the suspension Centennial Bridge. Went through there northbound aboard ms Maasdam in March.
 
tiriaq said:
They are southbound, heading for the Pacific. Pedro Miguel locks are a pair of flight locks coming off the Culebra Cut, a nine mile long stretch through the height of land. After Pedro Miguel is Miraflores, and the Pacific. About where the warship above the locks is, there is now the suspension Centennial Bridge. Went through there northbound aboard ms Maasdam in March.
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Went thru the Canal in Jan from the Pacific to the Caribbean. It's still a remarkable work of engineering to see after 100 plus years of operation. US Navy battleships had a max beam width of 108 ft stipulated to pass thru "the big ditch" which is 110 ft wide.
 
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Charles Upham (centre) pictured with members of his platoon in North Africa, November 1941. Upham had fought with the New Zealand Division in Greece in April that year, and in Crete in May. His remarkable bravery during the bitter fighting on Crete earned him a Victoria Cross (VC), awarded in October 1941.

In June and July 1942 Upham again showed tremendous courage leading his men in ferocious actions at Minqâr Qaim and Ruweisat Ridge in the North African desert. At Ruweisat Ridge he was wounded and captured by the Germans. After trying to escape from captivity several times Upham was sent to the notorious Colditz Castle prison in Germany during 1944. Following his liberation in 1945, military authorities decided that his actions at Minqâr Qaim and Ruweisat Ridge merited the addition of a bar to his VC. As a result, he became one of only three people – and the only combatant – ever to win the VC twice.
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That's true.There were several outfits stationed along Atlantic wall manned partially or fully with Volksdeuches (not sure is I spelled this correctly) drafted into Wehrmacht.
They came from all over Central Europe including Czechoslovak Republic.I'm sure Czech CGN'ers can find few memoirs printed with history of those solders.
There was a number of Polish conscripts in Wehrmacht too.Most of them came from Silesia and were included on Volksliste by default after 1939.

What's not in movie is abundance of Russians that were captured after D-Day.They didn't fight-Germans didn't trust them with weapons.They were employed as cooks,drivers etc.
Those were the ones who wanted to live and signed on with German army.They were all executed by Soviets after being handed over in 1945.

Edit-Korean movie "My Way" is partially based on history of Korean solders ending up in Germany.Large part of that movie takes part in Normandy.
 
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Yang Kyoungjong, Korean conscripted by the japanese to fight the soviets, who captured him, and later sent him to the eastern front, where he was again captured by the germans and sent to normandy. this is after his capture by the americans in june of 44
 
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