Joseph Beyrle
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Joseph Robert Beyrle was the only known American soldier to have served in combat with both the United States Army and the Soviet Red Army in World War II. He took part in Mission Albany, the airborne
Beyrle in Ramsbury, 1943
Beyrle as a POW, fall 1944
Joe Beyrle's gravesite
The German record with Beyrle's details as a prisoner of war
John Beyrle
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John Ross Beyrle is an American diplomat. A career Foreign Service Officer and specialist in Russian and Eastern European affairs, he served as Ambassador of the United States to the Russian Federatio
Joseph Beyrle
…evacuated and eventually made his way to the United States in April 1945. Beyrle died in 2004 and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. His son John Beyrle later became the United States Ambassador to Russia. Joseph Beyrle was born in Muskegon, Michigan on August 25, 1923. He was the fifth of seven children…
John Beyrle 2007
Ambassador Beyrle flew as a passenger on an F-16 during a joint Bulgarian-American training mission at Graf Ignatiev Airbase, 2006.
Ambassador Beyrle with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Under Secretary of State William J. Burns (left) and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (right) October 13, 2009.
Ambassador Beyrle interviewed on Ekho Moskvy Radio, September 11, 2008.