Re: Israel & the Korean War

[<david.maxwell@us.army.mil>]

I do not have my references handy but I think IRT Taiwain they did not 
actually offcer to commit troops to the Korean Peninsula I think they 
their offer was to attack the PRC (which was one of the reasons the 7th 
Fleet initially deployed to the Taiwan Straits right after the Korean 
War began.

V/R

Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Davino <mdavino@yahoo.com>
Date: Monday, October 8, 2001 6:22 am
Subject: Israel & the Korean War

> I saw Shimon Peres, the Israeli Foreign Minister, on
> TV today talking about the US strikes on the Taliban. 
> When he was talking about how good an ally Israel is
> to the US, he mentioned that during the Korean War,
> David Ben-Gurion offered Israeli forces to the US.
> Apparently the US turned them down. Does anyone know
> anything about this?  
> 
> I know Taiwan offered forces and the US turned them
> down also.  Were there any other countries who also
> offered forces that were not accepted?
> 
> Mike Davino
> 
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