Guerilla Warfare

Heroes Remember

Guerilla Warfare

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They taught us different things like, the ones that were interpreters that has to know Chinese in writing and we had to learn demolition of various types of plastic bombs and time fuses and then we had to learn wireless codes and so forth for reporting back to the bridge. We had to learn survival, we had to learn how to swim and wade rivers and just ordinary sabotage. Well we were organized jungle fighting in civilian clothes to organize a population, which, a lot of them were Chinese and we would be designated to land in certain areas. Where they are known, they are known ahead that we would be parachuting in that area and we had to learn to parachute of course, only three jumps; one morning, one day time, afternoon type and then one at night, just the three jumps to learn. And we were organized into groups of about ten to a group and certain groups had to learn their specializing in certain, like being the wireless they had to be top notch in that area and to be a demolition we had to be a demolition expert in that area and to be interpreters or anything like that we had to be very knowledgeable in language and well over all any type of guerilla knowledge that we had to be.

Description

Mr. Wong speaks about guerilla warfare training and how each person was trained in a specific area.

Victor Eric Wong

Mr Wong was born in Victoria, BC and enlisted in 1944 at the age of 18. He went overseas to fight in China after training at Camp Shiloh in Manitoba. He was a rifleman with the Special Operative Executive that fought in Burma and was trained in guerilla warfare.

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Medium:: Video
Owner:: Veterans Affairs Canada
Duration:: 02:44
Person Interviewed:: Victor Eric Wong
War, Conflict or Mission:: Second World War
Location/Theatre:: Burma
Branch:: Army
Units/Ship:: Special Operative Executive
Occupation:: Rifleman

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Guerilla Warfare

Heroes Remember