The timeline here is fascinating to me as I saw events which indicate that the U.S. knew war was coming and was aiding Israel well beforehand.
I graduated Troy University in June 1973, Months before the war. Sometime a few months before that, our class had taken a three day field trip to Mobile, Alabama.
We spent most of our time interviewing businesses in downtown Mobile, also visiting a large Mall and the closed Air Force Base whose name I have a mental block right now.
We also visited the Alabama State Docks. When we got there, we saw an incredible sight. Literally hundreds of tanks and other armored vehicles all around the port. It might even have been in the thousands.
Our professor sent me and Barry Diamond, to ask a crew member of one of the ships where the tanks were going. He told us they were being shipped to Israel. BTW, Barry is now a comedian and has been on Seinfeld.
It did strike me as fascinating that so much military goods were going to a single country.
What it all meant, I still don’t know. I do know it happened tho.
I was stationed at Pope AFB working long hours supporting the airlift side of the equation.