Pick Up No Prisoners

We weren't allowed to pick up, we never picked up any prisoners because they couldn't, they wouldn't come near you, they swam away from you all the time, so. And then we were told not to. We had a, happened to have a marine officer with us on patrol, and he showed us why we shouldn't pick up prisoners. When we were trying to do it, he pulled us aside, says "No" and he, we pulled him. He was dead mind you, but we thought get him onboard for his paperwork or whatever it is, and he opened him up and he was just covered in hand grenades. He says, "This is what would've happened if you'd have pulled him aboard, he'd of just (inaudible)" So, that was it. So, from then onwards we just let them swim ashore because the Jap-, the native Burmese people would have got them, or the crocodiles would have gotten them, so they got one choice. So we just, we didn't bother picking up, rescuing any of them, we just let them swim ashore.