Re: US OSS Detachment for Korea

[James Dennis <jrdennis@earthlink.net>]

>During WWII, an OSS detachment trained Kim Gu's men in China for covert
>actions in Korea.
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>There is a photo of these fellows at:  http://www.kimsoft.com/2000/kimgu.htm
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>I believe at least one of these served with JACK.  Can anyone identify them?
>(I know who the Korean chaps are but none of the Americans).
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>Rhee Syngman was an OSS colonel in America.  Was he a part of the OSS team?
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Rhee Syngman, the President of South Korea, was about 65 years old when 
he took office.  As I recall he was 70 years old when he was in Taegu 
during the retreat south (June 1950).  

A lot of foriegn residents were part of the OSS in the United States.  
Their tasks could be reading the captured papers, listening and 
translating radio broadcasts or providing expert opinions/information on 
the country. 

There were some Christian Missionaries who were also part of the OSS 
because of their missions into China and into northern Korea, many of 
them prior to the Japanese keeping them out.   It was the Christian 
Missionary support groups that help Rhee to come to the United States and 
gave him support during his anti-Japanese/Korean Independence campaign in 
the United States.  

  
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