No surrender
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No surrender
Well they took a lot of our operators and they put them on
the air, and they were sending messages to the Japanese telling
them the war was over, to go home. But all they'd get was a
break in and saying, "Go home Yank, go home Yank." You know,
they treated everybody like the Yankees. They didn't believe us
that the war was over.
Oh yes, some of them, years and years after were, they were still
hauling them out of the woods.
You gotta be just as careful after the war was over as you
were when the war was on. Snipers were everywhere you know.
We knew that people had been fired on, I was never fired on,
at least I didn't know I was, but...
Interviewer: You must have been brown as a berry come the end of
the summer, end of the war.
Yeah, all we wore was a pair of shorts, no shirt, nothing else.
We were like the Aboriginals. The Aboriginals would wear nothing.
Even the women from here up didn't wear anything.
Scorpions, this one thing we had to do, shake our boots every
morning you got up, shake them out. Scorpions were, one of our
fellas was bitten by a scorpion. And we had a couple of guys who
got malaria, and we were taking quinine or something for malaria,
and when I come home, and they took me off the quinine that's
when I, I thought I had malaria. There, there was a, I had a
reaction after they took me off the stuff.
Interviewer: Interesting...
(Inaudible) were all over the place, they were just a big
funnel stuck in the sand.
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