In World War II, He Fought For Two Armies

The Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War is dedicated to the Soviet victory in World War II. But on a recent afternoon, American military musicians made up half the band playing the national anthem at the opening of an exhibit telling the story of Joseph Beyrle, one of the few men to fight the Nazis in both the U.S. and Russian armies.

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