yes i find this hard to believe..a lot of people do not know that Spain had a Foreign legion too at one time
It's up to U to believe or not, talk to Korean war vets & ask them.
They were recruited from "refuges camps" in Northern Italy by Americans & British .
For example, British employed around 200-300 former Muslim soldiers of SS Waffen Skenderbeg (Albanians) & Handzar (Bosnian Croats) divisions for war in Palestine against Jews.
Skenderbegs,Handzar & veterans of other German Legions until recently use to have annual reunions.
American foreigners also fought pro Communist regimes in Central America.
Thousands of Mussolini's Black Shirts emigrated to Australia,Brazil & Argentina.
Germans & Croats WW2 soldiers we welcome by Huan Peron in Argentina & Franco in Spain.
Another recent example is war in former Yugoslavia, Croatian Foreign Legion (Irish,EnglishJapanese,Germans,etc,.) existed , many of them
were decorated.
French Foreign Legionaries & large contingent of Americans were training Croatian army.
God knows how many white mercenaries were employed by Ian Smith in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) & P.W.Botha in South Africa.
O, by the way Foreign Legion is also based in French Guiana (not too far from the U.S.),Tahiti & New Caledonia.